In the precolonial history of Indonesia indigenous kingdoms were influenced by the arrival of Hinduism, Buddhism, and Islam. Later, European powers arrived who conquered most of the Archipelago.

ABC Impact, the Asia-focused impact investment firm, has successfully completed the final closing of its second fund at over USD 600 million, doubling the ...

Bali’s many temples make it more prone to artefact theft than other places in Indonesia, where similar objects can only be found in museums and historical sites.

Statues and hundreds of culturally significant artefacts have been returned to Indonesia by the Dutch, but with close to 30 museum theft cases in recent decades authorities move to ensure these ...

Examples of Benin Bronzes from two German museums – public domain A museum in the Netherlands has announced it will return 119 bronze artifacts looted from the old Kingdom of Benin in West ...

Hundreds of Indonesian artefacts that were in the Netherlands for more than a century - the bulk of which were looted by the Dutch during their colonial rule - are now on display at Indonesia’s ...

A collection of hundreds of cultural artifacts from the second phase of repatriation from the Netherlands is on display at the National Museum of Indonesia.

The other three, depicting the gods Bhairava, Nandi and Brahma, were taken from Singasari, a late 13th-century temple complex in East Java, in the mid-19th century.

The Dutch government said it is returning 288 objects wrongfully taken during the colonial era to Indonesia, including weapons, coins, jewellery and textiles looted from Bali after a 1906 war. The ...

Among the 472 objects retrieved from the Netherlands, the four statues from the Singasari Kingdom era will soon be displayed at the Indonesia National Museum as part of the first stage of the artifact ...