Have you ever heard about Indonesian archipelago cultural
initiatives? You must have known that Indonesia is a large
country spread from west to east, with five big main islands, i.e.
Sumatera, Kalimantan, Java, Sulawesi and Irian Jaya. There are even other
small islands, counted around 17,000 identified and lived
by different ethnics. Although they have been united in the form of
republic country, each ethnic still enliven their traditional culture,
making up the heritage richness for
Indonesia.
Modern perspective has affect the way how people live in the world
today. It creates untraditional culture which sometimes is not suitable
to be implemented in this country. Or, many Indonesian people have been
used to this kind of up-to-date culture and forget the traditional ones,
showing how they seem losing the true identity as Indonesians. This
condition surely arise concerns among of those who still want to maintain
and preserve the traditional culture.goindonet, go indonesia,
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Indonesian archipelago cultural initiatives (IACI) is
an association, established by those who have concerns towards the
culture vision and management over the years. This group was
declared on December 29th 2007 in Bandung, with the main vision to
preserve the traditional culture with the untraditional way. One of its
founders, Hokky Situngkir, is a scientist who believes in scientific
approaches to gain the better living, due to the ability of human beings
to discover the beauty through reasoning.
IACI has been actively involved themselves in conducting the inventory
of the nation’s cultural richness. There are over 10 artifacts
recorded. Together with the Bandung Fe Institute and Solar Research
International, Indonesian archipelago cultural
initiatives will study their inventory further. From these
studies, they want to bring out a number of research works and other
innovative products.
Indonesian archipelago cultural initiatives seem
having a lot of works to do. Besides keeping a note of the cultural
heritage inventory, they also hold a number of expeditions and web 2.0
training to provides the cultural data collection program at educational
institutions like colleges, schools and other cultural enclaves. A
mission to strengthen the culture’s legal protection also becomes a
part of this institute’s tasks.
One of IACI products can be seen from its Indonesian Traditional
Heritages Open Digital Library website. It is made to promote various
forms of traditional culture in Indonesia, including
games, dances, herbal drinks and old manuscripts to public. People can
even easily open the site and contribute to enrich its contents through
photos and videos. By that way, everyone, especially residents of this
nation, can help Indonesian archipelago cultural
initiatives to do their missions and visions.
