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The Legal Aspects of Heritage Protection and Management in Indonesia: Toward Integrated Conservation

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The cultural heritage protection and management in Indonesia has been experiencing many challenges, obstacles, and changes from a century. This paper discusses the legal aspects of cultural heritage management and protection in Indonesia based on the current heritage legislations as well as its relevancies with the international instruments issued within the same period. The study relied on a literature review highlights that the current heritage legislations still have many loopholes and unparalleled to the heritage trends at a global level. Alsothe current issues in heritage protection and management have become more complex and unintegrated with a development plan.

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The authors gratefully acknowledge that the present research is supported by the Ministry of Research and Technology and Higher Education Republic of Indonesia. The support is under the research grant BP-PTN USU of year 2016.

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Fitri, I., Ahmad, Y. (2017). The Legal Aspects of Heritage Protection and Management in Indonesia: Toward Integrated Conservation. In: Silver, C., Marques, L., Hanan, H., Widiastuti, I. (eds) Proceedings of the 6th International Conference of Arte-Polis. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-5481-5_28

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