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Pusat Dokumentasi Arsitektur-Indonesia (Indonesian Center for Architecture Documentation) is a group of architects, committed to collect and keep the architecture documents and also research and documentation of conservation buildings.
Jakarta is growing fast physically, that’s why it is important to collect and provide good information of any old building, because the key elements should be known and respected.
Project Background
1. Legal aspects consideration
Indonesia has a wealth of cultural heritage in the built environment in which the field of traditional buildings and urban architecture is of a great interest for many segments of the society. A substantial part of it, is the legacy of urban architecture of the Ducth colonial era stretching the period between the early decades of the 17th to the middle of 20th century and about which documentation and a vast data of special interest for scientific purposes are still presumed to be found in the Netherlands.
As cities or towns artifacts, selected historic building or architecture created during the Dutch period in Indonesia, as well as those building of the later or newer periods after Indonesia Independence, are theoretically still protected under a law which originated to the Monument Ordonance of 1931, and revised to become the current National Heritage Law, which is Law No. 5-1992; and its various By-Laws issued between 1993 to 1998.
Recently, in connection with the promulgation of the new Law on Local Government Autonomous Function (Law No. 22 1999), greater decision on certain issue of cultural heritage such as the protection, conservation and preservation (including preservation by records) are to be taken on the level of Local Authorities.
Socializing and implementation of those Laws mentioned above, need among other things technical guidelines or consultancy service. Although the main task will be at the hands of governmental formal channels, public participation to support government actions are in great need and very desirable.
2. Practical and technical consideration
Being aware of above mentioned condition and knowing that efforts in this field by government agencies, universities, and heritage societies are being done pragmatically and with different objectives, a networking has to be initiated to promote further the benefit of information. In this connection, IAI and BNA has come to a consensus as confirmed by a Letter of Intent agreed in 1988 between the two professional associations, to appreciate the meaning of the Dutch architectural legacy in the context of the Indonesian national heritage. Under above-mentioned LOI, several scientific meetings, seminars and workshop have been organized by IAI and BNA in several cities in Indonesia between 1989-1999. Evaluating the success of those ventures, IAI and BNA have the conviction that the founding of a center to render services in the documentation and research and backed up by concerned stakeholders will benefit the society en large, as well as the world of scholars and the professionals in particular.
It was visioned that BNA will become the co-founder of the Indonesian Architecture Documentation and research center (IA-DRC), and in which BNA may collaborate with NAI (Nederlandse Architectuur Instituut) or other institutes in the Netherlands interested to support IA-DRC’s initial activities.
Pusat Dokumentasi Arsitektur-Indonesia (Indonesian Center for Architecture Documentation) is a group of architects, committed to collect and keep the architecture documents and also research and documentation of conservation buildings.
Jakarta is growing fast physically, that’s why it is important to collect and provide good information of any old building, because the key elements should be known and respected.
Project Background
1. Legal aspects consideration
Indonesia has a wealth of cultural heritage in the built environment in which the field of traditional buildings and urban architecture is of a great interest for many segments of the society. A substantial part of it, is the legacy of urban architecture of the Ducth colonial era stretching the period between the early decades of the 17th to the middle of 20th century and about which documentation and a vast data of special interest for scientific purposes are still presumed to be found in the Netherlands.
As cities or towns artifacts, selected historic building or architecture created during the Dutch period in Indonesia, as well as those building of the later or newer periods after Indonesia Independence, are theoretically still protected under a law which originated to the Monument Ordonance of 1931, and revised to become the current National Heritage Law, which is Law No. 5-1992; and its various By-Laws issued between 1993 to 1998.
Recently, in connection with the promulgation of the new Law on Local Government Autonomous Function (Law No. 22 1999), greater decision on certain issue of cultural heritage such as the protection, conservation and preservation (including preservation by records) are to be taken on the level of Local Authorities.
Socializing and implementation of those Laws mentioned above, need among other things technical guidelines or consultancy service. Although the main task will be at the hands of governmental formal channels, public participation to support government actions are in great need and very desirable.
2. Practical and technical consideration
Being aware of above mentioned condition and knowing that efforts in this field by government agencies, universities, and heritage societies are being done pragmatically and with different objectives, a networking has to be initiated to promote further the benefit of information. In this connection, IAI and BNA has come to a consensus as confirmed by a Letter of Intent agreed in 1988 between the two professional associations, to appreciate the meaning of the Dutch architectural legacy in the context of the Indonesian national heritage. Under above-mentioned LOI, several scientific meetings, seminars and workshop have been organized by IAI and BNA in several cities in Indonesia between 1989-1999. Evaluating the success of those ventures, IAI and BNA have the conviction that the founding of a center to render services in the documentation and research and backed up by concerned stakeholders will benefit the society en large, as well as the world of scholars and the professionals in particular.
It was visioned that BNA will become the co-founder of the Indonesian Architecture Documentation and research center (IA-DRC), and in which BNA may collaborate with NAI (Nederlandse Architectuur Instituut) or other institutes in the Netherlands interested to support IA-DRC’s initial activities.