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Following Indonesia’s ratification of the 2003 Convention
for the Safeguarding of the Intangible Cultural Heritage in October
2007, the UNESCO Office in Jakarta, the Department of Culture and
Tourism and the Indonesian National Commission for UNESCO are jointly
convening a two-day capacity-building workshop for the implementation
of the Convention, with technical support from the Intangible Cultural
Heritage Section of UNESCO Headquarters. The objectives of the
workshop are to strengthen the national capacities for implementing
the 2003 Convention and to provide stakeholders with the relevant
information, with particular attention to the:
- intangible cultural heritage resource mapping on Indonesia’s
territory with the participation of communities;
- explaining the procedure for the preparation of nomination
files to the Representative List and to the List of Intangible
Heritage in Urgent Need of Safeguarding.
Some 40 participants, including cultural officials, researchers,
universities, community representatives and practitioners, will
attend the national workshop , and there will approximately 100
guests at the opening ceremony.
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