OBJECT OF CULTURAL ADVANCEMENT 1

Manuscripts

Category explanation

A text and all information contained in it that have cultural and historical value; examples include serat, babad, hikayat, and kitab.

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ILLUSTRATIVE EXAMPLES

Cultural works and practices

These examples help explain the category; they do not limit what cultural forms may be recorded.

Bugis communities, South Sulawesi; this Leiden manuscript was transcribed in Makassar around 1852–1858.

La Galigo manuscript NBG-Boeg 188

Leiden University Libraries describes this twelve-part Bugis-language and script manuscript as recounting human origins according to South Sulawesi tradition. This example refers to the Leiden-held manuscript, not to every La Galigo copy.

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Javanese and Yogyakarta tradition; written by Diponegoro in exile in North Sulawesi in 1831–1832.

Babad Diponegoro (Chronicle of Diponegoro)

UNESCO identifies it as Diponegoro’s autobiographical chronicle and lists its document type as a manuscript. It also fits babad, an example in the law’s explanatory text.

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