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View all search resultsLombok treasure among items to be returned by Dutch
The Netherlands has said it would return around 500 cultural objects that were looted from Indonesia during the colonial era, including Lombok treasure plundered by Dutch troops after they massacred hundreds of people on the island in 1894.
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he Netherlands has said it would return around 500 cultural objects that were looted from Indonesia during the colonial era, including Lombok treasure plundered by Dutch troops after they massacred hundreds of people on the island in 1894.
Following a request from Jakarta last year, the Netherlands will return the famed Lombok treasure, which consists of a collection of 335 gold and silver items.
“The objects were wrongfully brought to the Netherlands during the colonial period, acquired under duress or by looting,” the Dutch government said in a statement.
The art and artifacts are currently housed at the National Museum of World Cultures and the Rijksmuseum.
Indonesia will also regain four statues from the ancient Javanese kingdom of Singasari, a traditional Balinese dagger and 132 modern art pieces from Bali, known as the Pita Maha collection.
Jakarta won’t recover, at least not yet, the remains of the Java Man, the first known fossil of the Homo Erectus species discovered by Dutchman Eugene Dubois during the colonial era.
The Dutch have in the past been reluctant to return the remains.
