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INDONESIA MARITIME ARCHAEOLOGY SOCIETY

HUMANITY AND CIVILIZATION

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MAREANESIA

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[Gong & ceramic with 6 inscription, underwater finding]

Institution or entity which in this case is abbreviated from its official name – Indonesian Maritime Archaeology Society. Dedicated to articulating awareness and wide-scale collaboration; exploration to utilization of underwater and/or maritime cultural heritage.

“Understanding” of underwater and/or maritime cultural heritage in the context of discourse relations has not found a balanced phase. Underwater and/or maritime cultural heritage is understood and “stigmatized” with an absolute credo which then makes the understanding of these subjects stagnant. Exploration at any level -read upstream downstream- becomes taboo. At least this is because the understanding of maritime and/or underwater subjects still uses a feudal mindset. Interpretations of these subjects then become clichés. Double standards emerge with stereotyped idioms; treasure and cultural heritage!

These two things actually become a distortion in understanding this subject. Treasures become identical with economic aspects. Cultural heritage becomes identical with something non-economic.

The real treasure is the intrinsic and transcendent aspect of the subject; provenance; curation & dissemination-. Cultural heritage can be a cultural reserve, cultural reserve is a legal status. Cultural heritage is something that lives and continues to move in civilization; homo et terra patriae.

The most elementary thing is what are the interests related to cultural heritage? What is the common sense and common ground?

It is this interest that gives rise to important values -intrinsic & transcendent-. The idea is that national interests are in it! One of the attributes in the exploration journey that begins from the level of thinking -protection-development-utilization; preservation.

Gongs and ceramics with inscriptions of 6 Chinese characters as underwater findings are the result of elaboration and reflection of all of this. Handed over to the Ministry of Education and Culture in this case the Directorate General of Culture on October 10, 2022; now it is the Ministry of Culture.