Cultural heritage: The politics of pictures of Indonesia

When visitors take pictures of Indonesia, they photograph Indonesia’s cultural heritage. These pictures share certain qualities. They seem harmonious and to be of activities or places that have remained the same for generations or centuries. They also often exclude people or represent them as bound...

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Main Authors: Jones, Tod, Tirtisudarmo, R.
Format: Non traditional textual works
Published: 2016
Online Access:http://www.insideindonesia.org/edition-123-jan-mar-2016
http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/21384
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description When visitors take pictures of Indonesia, they photograph Indonesia’s cultural heritage. These pictures share certain qualities. They seem harmonious and to be of activities or places that have remained the same for generations or centuries. They also often exclude people or represent them as bound by history and relics of a past era. This article introduces the contemporary politics of heritage in Indonesia, the articles in this special issue, and provides an overview of the issues facing heritage access, management and use in Indonesia in democratising Indonesia.
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spelling curtin-20.500.11937-213842018-05-01T06:13:15Z Cultural heritage: The politics of pictures of Indonesia Jones, Tod Tirtisudarmo, R. When visitors take pictures of Indonesia, they photograph Indonesia’s cultural heritage. These pictures share certain qualities. They seem harmonious and to be of activities or places that have remained the same for generations or centuries. They also often exclude people or represent them as bound by history and relics of a past era. This article introduces the contemporary politics of heritage in Indonesia, the articles in this special issue, and provides an overview of the issues facing heritage access, management and use in Indonesia in democratising Indonesia. 2016 Non traditional textual works http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/21384 http://www.insideindonesia.org/edition-123-jan-mar-2016 restricted
spellingShingle Jones, Tod
Tirtisudarmo, R.
Cultural heritage: The politics of pictures of Indonesia
title Cultural heritage: The politics of pictures of Indonesia
title_full Cultural heritage: The politics of pictures of Indonesia
title_fullStr Cultural heritage: The politics of pictures of Indonesia
title_full_unstemmed Cultural heritage: The politics of pictures of Indonesia
title_short Cultural heritage: The politics of pictures of Indonesia
title_sort cultural heritage: the politics of pictures of indonesia
url http://www.insideindonesia.org/edition-123-jan-mar-2016
http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/21384