The Great Indonesia Movement Party (Gerindra) politician recounted: “They used four ships to transport these treasures, but two of them sank. The remaining items are now kept at the British Museum and the British Library.
Hundreds of our historical manuscripts have still not been returned,” Fadli said during a hearing with the House of Representatives’ Commission.
He noted that the UK and the Netherlands hold the largest collections of Indonesian antiquities taken during the colonial period.
