RI to trace archives to Netherlands

RI to trace archives to Netherlands

MATARAM, West Nusa Tenggara: The West Nusa Tenggara provincial
administration has formed a team to reclaim its historic archives
from the Netherlands, an official said on Wednesday.

Chief of the provincial archives board M. Natsir Ipapy said
the team was slated to reclaim about 120 historic archives and a
number of articles on West Nusa Tenggara that are in the
Netherlands.

Among the archives held in several Dutch museums are archival
documents on the histories of Lombok Island, King Selaparan, King
Pejanggik and the sultans of Sumbawa.

The team of six are to leave for the Netherlands in May 2004.

Natsir said the archives and the historic articles were taken
to the Netherlands when Indonesia was under Dutch rule. -- Antara