On October 13, an international training seminar for the UNESCO “Memory of the World” programme, themed “Expanding the Potential of Documentary Diversity,” opened in Jakarta, the capital of Indonesia.
The primary objective of the seminar is to strengthen international cooperation and enhance the human and technical capacity of countries in the Asia-Pacific region, enabling them to effectively preserve and nominate significant documentary heritage for inclusion in the UNESCO “Memory of the World” International Register.
The event was organized by the National Archives of the Republic of Indonesia (ANRI) in collaboration with the UNESCO National Commissions of South Korea and Indonesia, as well as the Korea Heritage Service.
Giring Ganesha, Deputy Minister of Culture of Indonesia, and Kwibae Kim, Chair of the UNESCO “Memory of the World” Committee for the Asia-Pacific region attended the opening ceremony.
This seminar is set to be the largest in the history of the UNESCO “Memory of the World” programme, bringing together representatives from across the Asia-Pacific region—including Bangladesh, Brunei, Cambodia, Fiji, Indonesia, Laos, Myanmar, Palau, the Philippines, Sri Lanka, Timor-Leste, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, and Tuvalu. Leading international experts in the field of documentary heritage preservation have also arrived in Jakarta to participate.
The seminar agenda covers practical tasks such as training on nomination procedures, assessing the physical condition of collections, risk management, and preparing materials for long-term digital preservation, among other topics. Chinar Rustemova, Executive Secretary of the National Commission of Turkmenistan for UNESCO, and Maksat Meredov, a researcher at the Institute of Language, Literature, and National Manuscripts of the Academy of Sciences of Turkmenistan represent Turkmenistan at the current international seminar of the “Memory of the World” program.
The UNESCO “Memory of the World” training seminar will continue until October 18.
