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Urban heritage conservation promoted in workshop

Representatives of 25 cities in Indonesia recently gained knowledge and experience of the conservation of heritage buildings during a six-day workshop hosted by UNESCO in cooperation with the Culture and Education Ministry

The Jakarta Post
Jakarta
Wed, November 25, 2015

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Urban heritage conservation promoted in workshop

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epresentatives of 25 cities in Indonesia recently gained knowledge and experience of the conservation of heritage buildings during a six-day workshop hosted by UNESCO in cooperation with the Culture and Education Ministry.

Irakli Khodeli, a program specialist from UNESCO Jakarta, said that the workshop, which was held in Jakarta recently, was an attempt to educate civil servants, architects, contractors and owners of heritage buildings on conservation techniques and adaptive re-use.

'€œWe have high hopes that the knowledge will be of good use in these very capable hands,'€ he said in his speech on Friday.

According to Irakli, the event is part of the UNESCO-Indonesia Fund-In-Trust program called '€œOld City, New Vision: First phase project for the revitalization of Kota Tua, Jakarta, through sustainable tourism and heritage conservation'€.

He added that workshop participants had come from a range of tourism and cultural agencies, as well as the Kota Tua spatial management unit and the Public Works and Public Housing Ministry. In addition, the workshop also involved experts from the Center for Architectural Documentation Indonesia, the Indonesian Association of Architects (IAI) and Australia'€™s Network for Cultural Heritage Services (AusHeritage).

The event was divided into two main activities, in-field training and a heritage clinic.

During the in-field training, the participants visited a number of historical places, including Fatahillah Square '€” the heart of the city'€™s old town, Kota Tua '€” and Gudang Timur, once the eastern warehouse of the Dutch East Indies Company in West Jakarta.

The sites served as the primary learning points, with participants given practical lessons on how to conserve or revitalize old buildings in groups, led by AusHeritage conservation experts Bruce Pettman, Joy Singh and David Mason. The experts then asked the participants to create a group report and presentation regarding the heritage sites.

'€œThis report also served as a take-home deliverable that could be shared with other cultural heritage conservation teams in the participants'€™ respective cities,'€ Irakli said, adding that each report had been presented to the class by the groups.

After the in-field training, the participants learned to discover and determine the cultural significance of heritage buildings in heritage clinic sessions, in which participants were assisted by 15 experts and architects.

During the session, participants and experts worked in groups, acting as doctors to old buildings. They examined the buildings'€™ condition based on the description given by the stakeholders then gave suggestions on courses of action to take in order to serve the buildings.

According to Irakli, the participants and experts received more than 20 cases, with issues rangins from legal frameworks and conservation to masterplan issues. (agn)

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