https://www.cnn.com/style/netherlands-repatriation-sri-lanka-indonesia-tan/index.html
Netherlands to return nearly 500 looted objects to Indonesia and Sri Lanka
The Dutch government is returning 478 objects looted during colonial times to Indonesia and Sri Lanka.
Following multiple claims from Indonesia, Sri Lanka and Nigeria, the Dutch Secretary of State for Culture and Media Gunay Uslu announced the decision Thursday to repatriate objects including the “Lombok treasure,” consisting of 335 objects from Lombok, Indonesia, the Pita Maha collection, a key collection of modern art from Bali and the 18th-century Cannon of Kandy, a ceremonial weapon from Sri Lanka made of bronze, silver and gold and inlaid with rubies.
“This is a historic moment,” Uslu said in a press statement. “It’s the first time we’re following recommendations… to give back objects that should never have been brought to the Netherlands. But more than anything, it’s a moment to look to the future. We’re not only returning objects; we’re also embarking on a period of closer cooperation with Indonesia and Sri Lanka in areas like collection research, presentation and exchanges between museums.”
Yeah. I read about it.
I don’t know what to think of it.
On one hand, whatever.
On another hand, sure, if these countries want their stuff back, it’s fair to give it back.
Yet, on another hand, does a country really own those sorts of things?
I guess, as long as they’renon public display, I’m not really bothered in which country they are kept.
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@shavixmir
It's not about "stuff". It's about colonizers plundering nations and enjoying the prosperity that brought. Along with precious artifacts resources were stolen. people were enslaved. Those artifacts are symbols of a stolen culture's history.
@vivify saidHand them back and charge the 100 years of air-conditioned storage plus post and packaging.
@shavixmir
It's not about "stuff". It's about colonizers plundering nations and enjoying the prosperity that brought. Along with precious artifacts resources were stolen. people were enslaved. Those artifacts are symbols of a stolen culture's history.
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@sonhouse saidAnd you're a simp for one of the most corrupt goobermints in the world guilty of atrocious human rights abuses in Papua in the interests of stealing resources from that country, something that is occurring as we speak, it's occurring as you call me a POS when it's you that's the POS.
@Wajoma
You really prove you are a card carrying POS.
The Indonesian state.
You think 'the people' are going to get anything out of some trinkets being handed back. Handed to who? Your and Vivify's state worship is so deep you kneel and bow before one of the most oppressive corrupt goobermints in the world and sing their praises.
Poor people in a rich country (the Netherlands) having been paying for the security and care of some secondhand junk so that it may now be handed back to rich people in a poor country.
@vivify saidI know. But it is just stuff, in the end.
@shavixmir
It's not about "stuff". It's about colonizers plundering nations and enjoying the prosperity that brought. Along with precious artifacts resources were stolen. people were enslaved. Those artifacts are symbols of a stolen culture's history.
I’m sure prior Indonesian governments didn’t take any stuff that didn’t belong to them…
The colonial past is indeed atrocious. But most of history is.
Like I said, I don’t really care which country has “that” stuff, so long as the public can view it.
However, where is it going to stop?
Perhaps that stuff belonged to a certain town, a certain street, a certain house, etc.
Can Istanbul demand tsar’s treasures which were taken from Constantinople before it fell to the Muslim invaders?
As an example.