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President: Batak cultural artifacts be returned please


President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono, on Tuesday (18 / 1), requested that the Batak cultural artifacts that now many scattered in museums abroad and foreign collectors returned. Of about 1,600 Batak manuscripts, nearly 90 percent to museum collections in European countries.

The President expressed for the refund request must be done carefully, including a long term cooperation with a number of museums abroad is now a collector of cultural artifacts Batak.

According to Lieutenant General (Ret.) Bernard Tiopan Silalahi, the initiator of Batak Museum, collector-collector in the Netherlands, Germany, and Britain promised to return the artifact to the Indonesian culture.

Batak Museum was initiated by Silalahi and inaugurated by President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono on Tuesday. "Batak Museum purposely built for some Batak manuscripts currently residing overseas can return to the Motherland,"he said Silalahi.

The museum was built in Balige Batak, Toba Samosir, North Sumatra. "Balige located at an altitude of 900 meters above sea level is perfect for storing a collection of historical objects whose age was hundreds of years, " Silalahi explain the reason for the museum site selection.

Batak new museum is currently storing some 1,000 collections of various cultural objects owned six Batak tribe, the Toba, Mandailing, Angkola, Simalungun, Karo, and Pakpak.
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