TACB DKI Starts To Make Recommendations To Anies, Make The House Of Former Minister Of Foreign Heritage

JAKARTA - Chairman of the Expert Team of Cultural Heritage (TACB) of DKI Jakarta Province Gatot Ghautama said his party began conducting a study to provide recommendations for the house of former Foreign Minister Achmad Soebardjo Djojoadisoerjo as a cultural heritage.

Currently, the house located at Jalan Cikini Raya No. 82, Menteng, Central Jakarta is being sold by the heirs through advertising on social media.

"Soon, today we will discuss and review for the preparation of recommendations for the establishment of cultural heritage over the former Foreign Minister's house," Gatot told VOI, Wednesday, April 14.

In Law No. 11 of 2010 on Cultural Heritage, cultural heritage is a material heritage that needs to be preserved because it has important value for history, science, education, religion, and/or culture through the determination process.

In Article 16, a cultural heritage owned by any person may be transferred to the state or any other person. Transfer of ownership is done by bequeathed, given, exchanged, gifted, sold, reimbursed, and/or the determination or decision of the court.

In determining a building as a cultural heritage, the government registers or registers. In Article 31, TACB conducts a feasibility study to determine whether the building is a cultural heritage or not.

The assessment is carried out by the process of identification and classification of objects, buildings, structures, locations, and units of geographical space proposed to be designated as cultural reserves.

According to Gatot, Soebardjo house deserves to be used as a cultural heritage because it has historical value. "From its historical value, this house should be used as a cultural heritage," he said.

Separately, Betawi Culture, Ridwan Saidi considers If you want to establish as a cultural heritage, according to Babe Ridwan, the government in this case the Provincial Government of DKI needs to buy the house.

"The government needs to buy Mr. Soebardjo's house because it is suitable as a cultural heritage. It can be used as a museum," said the man who is familiarly called Babe Ridwan.

For information, an Instagram account selling houses, kristohouse advertises the sale of photos of achmad Soebardjo Djojoadisoerjo's house, which is currently owned by his heirs.

"For sale the old house in a strategic location, commercial zone, can be for an 8-storey building," wrote the kristohouse account.

The sale of this house is worth Rp200 billion. The house was once the first office of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in the early era of independence. After the Ministry of Foreign Affairs office was built, the house became the private residence of the Soebardjo family.