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Foreign Affairs Books has Thousands of Ancient Indonesia


Cultural and historical objects, belongs to Indonesia and the story of the more attractive in countries abroad and have save thousands of ancient books in various fields of criticism ancestor of a nation be brought since the 19th century.

"The books that consist of various feature such as literature, law, religion and history," said researcher culture far east of France, Henri Chambert-Loir in surgical book "Hikayat captain cool" and "Hikayat Mepati Mas" at the National Library, Jakarta , Wed.

According to him, the papers ancestor of Indonesia is generally derived from the period before the 19th century, some of the 16 century.

Script in various scientific fields that are written with the various languages of Indonesia, such as Malay, Javanese, Buginese and Batak.

These books are carried out before the independence of Indonesia, especially by the Dutch to learn and be inspected.

Then, thousands of books that spread to other countries who want to learn the culture of Indonesia. "In France also there but only a hundred, the most in the Netherlands, the number of thousands," he said.

He said the Indonesian people do not need to discuss the many books in the past that foreign country because it is a part of efforts to save the world.

If not brought to the outside of the country, feared the books considered to be very valuable will be lost or destroyed over the condition has not been stable in Indonesia.

It is important, he said, is that books can still be read, examined and published, if you want to learn the knowledge in it.

Indonesian people live in order to seek access to reading, researching and publishing books that, he said.