Central Kalimantan TACB Recommends 6 Buildings Entering Cultural Conservation, Imanuel GKE Mandomai Church For National Ranking

Kadisbudpar Central Kalimantan, Adiah Chandra. (ANTARA/Muhammad Arif Hidayat)

PALANGKA RAYA - The Central Kalimantan Province (Central Kalimantan) Cultural Heritage Expert Team (TACB) for 2023 has recommended six buildings as cultural heritage. "This is one of the mandates of the law as an effort to protect cultural heritage, especially cultural heritage in Central Kalimantan," said Head of the Central Kalimantan Culture and Tourism Office (Disbudpar), Adiah Chandra Sari in Palangka Raya, Thursday, November 9. During 2023 the Central Kalimantan Cultural Heritage Expert Team has held several sessions and produced several recommendations for determining cultural heritage, the first is the Imanuel GKE Mandomai Church which is recommended to be the National Ranking Cultural Heritage. Second, Betang Apat is recommended as a Cultural Heritage for the Ranking of Murung Raya Regency and third, Betang Bantian is recommended as a Cultural Heritage for the Ranking of Murung Raya Regency. Furthermore, the fourth is the Anjir Serapat Juang House which is recommended as a Cultural Heritage for the Ranking of Central Kalimantan Province, and the fifth is the Tjilik Riwut House which is recommended as a Cultural Heritage for the Ranking of Central Kalimantan Province. Finally, the sixth is the Palangka Raya City Development Design Monument which is recommended as a Cultural Heritage for the Ranking of Central Kalimantan Province. "Hopefully, through this effort, the Central Kalimantan Provincial Government's program in preserving and protecting the 2023 cultural heritage can be achieved as expected," he said. Meanwhile, previously in 2022, two buildings had also been designated as Provincial Ranking Cultural Conservation, namely the Imanuel GKE Mandomai Church in Kapuas Regency and the Kyai Gede Mosque in West Kotawaringin Regency.

The determination process begins with a proposal for registration of suspected Cultural Conservation Objects (ODCB) by the Cultural Conservation Registration Team to the Cultural Conservation Expert Team to be studied and recommended as a building object or structure or site or area that is suitable as a cultural heritage through a decision trial. Furthermore, the recommendation from the Cultural Heritage Expert Team was submitted to the regional head to be determined by a decree as a cultural heritage.