Fadli Zon: Ministry Of Culture Has Inaugurated 15 Museums For A Year

Minister of Culture Fadli Zon. (Photo: Doc. Antara)

JAKARTA - Minister of Culture (Menbud) Fadli Zon said that during his one year in office, his party had inaugurated 15 new museums and hoped that in the future many museums would attend.

"And we have also in this one year, I myself inaugurated approximately 15 new museums, so there are 15 new museums that we inaugurate. We hope that in the future more museums will grow," said the Minister of Culture in a discussion with the media held in Jakarta, on Friday, October 24, evening, quoted by Antara.

The Ministry of Culture, he said, has so far recorded 481 registered museums. He admitted that Panjang's duties are still waiting for the museum, namely registering or collecting data on a number of museums to standardization.

Fadli also stated that until now museum visitors have also broken the record of 3.5 million visitors.

On the same occasion, the Director General of Cultural Protection and Tradition, Restu Gunawan added that the Ministry of Culture at least every month inaugurates one museum, which according to him is a new achievement.

In addition, he said, his party is also working on the Summary Bill so that it can be discussed by the DPR as one of the steps to revitalize museums in Indonesia.

Fadli also stated that this museum Bill had been one of the draft laws that were included in the DPR's initiative and studied by the DPR's Expert Body for years.

"But it has never been a priority bill, it has only become a bill in the medium-term list," he added.

Not only that, he is also working on revising other bills, namely the Cultural Heritage Bill, the Film Bill related to information equipment and technology, including artificial intelligence.

The three plans regarding the bill have been submitted to the Ministry of Law in order to get support so that the regulations in these three matters are increasingly in accordance with the current relevance.

Previously, the Minister of Culture had inaugurated the South Sumatran Tiger Cave Site Museum, the Pariaman-West Sumatra Cultural Museum to the Sarkofagus-Bali Museum.