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Surakarta wins culture preservation award
History you can touch: A local resident rides his motorbike in front of a historical building in Surakarta
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History you can touch: A local resident rides his motorbike in front of a historical building in Surakarta. The Surakarta administration has won an award for their cultural heritage preservation from the Culture and Elementary and Secondary Education Ministry. (Courtesy of solopos.com) (Courtesy of solopos.com)
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span class="inline inline-center">History you can touch: A local resident rides his motorbike in front of a historical building in Surakarta. The Surakarta administration has won an award for their cultural heritage preservation from the Culture and Elementary and Secondary Education Ministry. (Courtesy of solopos.com)
The Surakarta administration has been honored as the regional administration that best preserves culture for 2015 by the Culture and Elementary and Secondary Education Ministry.
'We and the Blitar administration have been honored in the category of regional administration with the best cultural heritage preservation in Indonesia,' the Surakarta's head of culture and tourism Eny Tyasni Suzana said as quoted by Antara news agency on Thursday.
She said this was the first time the Surakarta administration had won an award in the field of culture preservation.
'The ministry has acknowledged that the Surakarta administration cares about the preservation of culture,' Eny said.
Examples of the administration's great culture preservation efforts that the award cited, she said, were the issuance of a regional regulation on culture preservation; a mayoral decree on the registration of heritage buildings; the preservation of historic buildings; and the recognition of individuals and institutions committed to preserving Indonesian cultural heritage with the awarding of property tax reductions of up to 30 percent.
Eny said currently, there was at least 175 historical buildings, areas and objects that the Surakarta administration had deemed cultural heritage. Of those, the Surakarta administration's urban planning agency issued decrees for the preservation of around 100; 70 items of cultural heritage were made official with a Surakarta mayoral decree while the five remaining heritage listed items were placed on the list by the Culture and Elementary and Secondary Education Ministry.
The administration's urban planning agency head Agus Djoko Witiarso said the agency was in the process of establishing a Surakarta cultural heritage expert team. The team, he said, would play an important role because the examination process it conducted would become official procedure for determining if a building or an area was cultural heritage. (ebf)
