YOGYAKARTA - Minister of Culture Fadli Zon encourages the archiving of the works of Indonesian maestros so that their creative journey does not disappear. He considers art archives to be important to preserve cultural memory as well as to serve as a learning material for the next generation.
Fadli conveyed this when visiting the Archivepelago exhibition: Jalan Persemaian Garin Nugroho "45 Years of Recording Indonesia" at the Innovation and Creativity Arena of Gadjah Mada University, Yogyakarta, Wednesday, July 8.
The exhibition features an archive installation of Garin Nugroho's creative journey for 45 years of work. Garin is known as a filmmaker and culturalist who has recorded many Indonesian faces through films, documentaries, and audio visual works.
"This is an exhibition that tells the long journey of someone who has high dedication," said Fadli.
According to Fadli, exhibitions like this can be an example for cultural figures, artists, and other maestros to document the journey of their works. Archives not only store the past, but also open a learning space for the public.
"This can inspire figures, cultural figures, artists, maestros who have a long archive of traveling works to be able to showcase and document their creative journey," he said.
Fadli assessed that Garin's consistency for more than four decades was not born instantly. The journey was built through a long process, collaboration, networking, and working together with many parties in recording the dynamics of Indonesian culture.
Garin's work also moves across forms. He makes short films, documentaries, feature films, and various other audio visual works. From there, the traces of time, cultural regions, and changes in Indonesian society can be read.
Fadli said the archiving of the works of the masters is an important part of building a sustainable cultural ecosystem. Archives, he said, can be a source of knowledge, inspiration, and learning in understanding the development of art, culture, and the journey of the nation.
Garin Nugroho expressed his gratitude for the Ministry of Culture's support for the preservation of archives and the empowerment of Indonesian maestros.
"Hopefully, this Archive program at GIK can continue through collaboration with the Ministry of Culture so that more and more journeys of Indonesian maestros are documented, studied, and become an inspiration for the next generation," said Garin.
The Archivepelago exhibition also shows how Garin reads Indonesia through the traces of works and ideas for 45 years. For Garin, the creative journey is like "shifting farmers", a way of working that grows from encounters with many cultural regions in the archipelago.
During the visit, Fadli was accompanied by the Director of Cultural Heritage Agus Widiatmoko, the Director of Cultural Diplomacy Raden Usman Effendi, the Head of the D.I. Yogyakarta Cultural Preservation Center Riris Purbasari, and the Head of the Central Java Cultural Preservation Center Nahar Cahyandaru.
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