Rumah Adat in Indonesia as the world's cultural inheritance

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Three-custom home that is traditional in Indonesia Makassar, South Sulawesi, East Nusa Tenggara and Nias, North Sumatra, will be proposed to the UN agencies through the institution of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) to be the "Culture Heritage World "(world heritage).

"It will be proposed that the Indonesian government through the relevant agencies to UNESCO," said UNESCO Representative to Indonesia, Ardito F Kodijat in Padang, on Wednesday.

This is disampaikannya on the sidelines of the Regional Seminar with the theme "Building Models for Disaster Preparedness" which was held with the NGO UNESCO Komunias standby Tsunami (Kogami) Indonesia.

According to him, pengusulan a world cultural heritage must be from the state government concerned, and the process takes long enough to be approved by UNESCO.

He explains, as the determination of world cultural heritage, indeed to give a big impact in terms of budget support from UNESCO, to protect and preserve the cultural heritage-waruisan in the state.

Instead, the government of the state and the region where the cultural heritage of the world are also required to maintain and preserve the heritage, he said.

Specifically in Indonesia, UNESCO will set batik as a world cultural heritage nonkebendaan, upon the suggestion the Government of Indonesia.

Batik will be the world's cultural heritage is set to seven UNESCO in Indonesia, after the rare Komodo animals, tropical forests, ancient sites Sangiran, Borobudur, Prambanan and traditional weapons keris.

Source : Kompas