Try Sutrisno Donates Gamis And Hamzah Haz Donates Slippers For The Balai Kirti Presidential Museum

The sixth Vice President (Wapres) for the 1993-1998 period Try Sutrisno submitted his collection to the Balai Kirti Presidential Museum in Jakarta (Photo: Antara)

JAKARTA - The sixth Vice President (Wapres) for the 1993-1998 period Try Sutrisno and the ninth Vice President for the 2001–2004 period Hamzah Haz donated their private collections to the Balai Kirti Presidential Museum, Bogor.

Reported by Antara, Wednesday, May 5, in a written statement received, the collection was handed over by Try Sutrisno and Hamzah Haz directly to the Secretary of the Directorate General of Culture, Ministry of Education, Culture, Research and Technology, Fitra Arda, accompanied by the Head of the Indonesian Presidential Museum Balai Kirti, Dewi Murwaningrum, at the private residence of Try Sutrisno and Hamzah Haz.

Try Sutrisno and Hamzah Haz donated their collections when they were Vice President, and these collections will later be exhibited in order to provide education to museum visitors.

Try Sutrisno donated a complete collection of civilian clothing (PSL) for men in the form of dark suits, dark work clothes, dark caps, glasses and a place, a book entitled "The 27th Provincial Work Visit", Al-Qur'an, prayer beads. and the slippers that were often worn when he was vice president. Meanwhile, Hamzah Haz donated a collection of shirts, sarongs, turban, black cap and white cap, as well as the robe that was often worn when he was vice president.

Fitra Arda welcomed the handover of the collections owned by Try Sutrisno and Hamzah Haz to the Presidential Museum of the Republic of Indonesia, Balai Kirti. Fitra also instructed to immediately prepare everything needed for the location of the collection so that it can be exhibited to the public.

"We welcome Pak Try and Pak Hamzah Haz's initiative to submit their private collections to the museum. For this reason, I ask the Head of the Museum to immediately prepare an exhibition location for Pak Try and Pak Hamzah's collections, so that they can be seen by the public, "said Fitra.

The submission of the collections belonging to the two vice presidents was in accordance with the work program of the Balai Kirti Presidential Museum. One of them is the assessment and collection activities related to the vice president's figure. The activity aims to explore the potential value and collection information that will be exhibited and communicated to the public as part of the life journey of the vice presidents.

This is one of the efforts made to develop the Balai Kirti Presidential Museum. The next stage of this activity is a study activity, the results of which will serve as recommendations in narrating the collection into an exhibition system at the Presidential Museum of the Republic of Indonesia, Balai Kirti. These collections will certainly add to the diversity of collections and information held by the Balai Kirti Presidential Museum.

The museum has stored collections of six presidents, ranging from Soekarno, Suharto, BJ Habibie, Abdurrahman Wahid, Megawati, to Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono. So that Try Sutrisno became the first Vice President to hand over his collections to the Balai Kirti Presidential Museum.

The Balai Kirti Presidential Museum functions as a vehicle for recreation and education to obtain information from the presidents and vice presidents' memorabilia and visuals, so that visitors can appreciate, appreciate, and imitate the steps and achievements of each leader.