Heritage Year 2003 opens

Heritage Year 2003 opens

YOGYAKARTA: Minister of Tourism and Culture I Gde Ardhika and Minister of Agriculture Bungaran Saragih on Wednesday jointly marked the beginning of Indonesia Heritage Year 2003 at Sambi village, Pakem, Sleman regency, some 20 kilometers north of here.

A five-day international symposium and workshop on Managing Heritage Environment in Asia was also opened officially on the same day.

Organizing committee chairman Laretna T. Adishakti said a series of activities such as seminars, workshops, heritage tours and trails, exhibitions and heritage education programs had been organized in a number of provinces.

"We're also preparing a heritage charter and hope that we will be able to declare it before the end of 2003," Laretna, also the Chairman of Gadjah Mada University's Center for Heritage Conservation, said. --JP