A collection of 800 artefacts taken from Indonesia during Dutch colonial rule is now on display in Jakarta's National Museum as part of the exhibition Repatriated.
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00:30but also the most important is
00:33first, how can we reconstruct the history of the past
00:40that may be lost or erased or manipulated
00:47we can reconstruct this
00:49second, we can fill the gap of the vacuum of history that has existed all this time
01:00it's important that those objects that are requested to be returned are returned
01:16still, there might be other objects from which the provenance is not clear
01:21or for some other reasons, restitution is not possible
01:25then these might be displayed in Dutch museums
01:29but again, the heart of the matter is that colonial collections
01:34artifacts that were stolen during the colonial period
01:37are returned on the basis of this process that was established