JAKARTA - Minister of Culture Fadli Zon encourages the Jakarta Arts Institute or IKJ to strengthen art education which not only produces creators, but also cultural industry players who understand research, technology, business, and intellectual property rights.
Fadli conveyed this when attending the 56th Anniversary of IKJ at the IKJ Auditorium, Jakarta, Friday, June 26.
According to Fadli, IKJ for almost six decades has become one of the important art campuses in Indonesia. From this campus, artists, filmmakers, actors, directors, dancers, musicians, designers, academics, and cultural workers who help shape the face of national culture are born.
Fadli said the theme of the 56th Anniversary of IKJ, Creative Knowledge and Global Presence, Leading to Artpreneur, is relevant to the challenges of the current cultural industry. The art world is no longer enough to rely on talent and the courage to express themselves. Art practitioners also need to understand technology, digital literacy, research, copyright, and entrepreneurship.
He assessed that art universities have a strategic role in processing cultural wealth into knowledge, creative works, and economic value.
"In this context, cultural knowledge and creative knowledge are very important as the ability of the nation to process cultural capital, artistic traditions, and local knowledge into ideas that continue to live," said Fadli.
Fadli also said that Indonesia has a large cultural capital as a nation with cultural megadiversity, namely a very wide cultural diversity. Diversity of tribes, languages, traditions, arts, and cultural heritage, must be a source of knowledge, innovation, and cultural diplomacy.
"Indonesia is not only a country that has cultural diversity, but is a cultural megadiversity. This cultural wealth must be the main capital to build the future of the nation," he said.
According to Fadli, culture cannot be read only as a performance art or aesthetic work. In Law Number 5 of 2017 concerning the Development of Culture, culture includes various objects that need to be protected, developed, utilized, and nurtured.
Therefore, the government has strengthened a number of cultural agendas. Among them are the registration of cultural heritage, the revitalization of museums, cultural diplomacy, the development of the national film industry, and the improvement of human resource capacity in the field of culture.
Fadli hopes that IKJ will continue to be a space for artpreneurs, artistic research, cultural industries, and international collaboration. In that way, art and culture will not only be a space for expression, but also a source of innovation, welfare, and economic growth.
IKJ was established in 1970 and is known as one of the important art colleges in Indonesia. This campus has produced many art and culture figures from various fields, ranging from film, theater, music, dance, fine art, to design.
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