UNESCO World Heritage for Indonesia |
UNESCO World Heritage Sites represent some of the best natural, cultural and historic attractions in world travel. Below are details of the 8 cultural, natural and mixed sites inscribed for Indonesia to date (a red World Heritage symbol denotes a site currently regarded as endangered). For more details of these properties, click on the links to the UNESCO website and the photographic galleries of these sites from OurPlace (where available) or see our highlights of Indonesia for descriptions. Also, check out UNESCO's Intangible Cultural Heritage for Indonesia below.
1991 - Komodo National Park | Natural site | ||
1991 - Ujung Kulon National Park | Natural site | ||
1991 - Prambanan Temple Compounds | Cultural site | ||
1991 - Borobudur Temple Compounds | Cultural site | ||
1996 - Sangiran Early Man Site | Cultural site | ||
1999 - Lorentz National Park | Natural site | ||
2004 - Tropical Rainforest Heritage of Sumatra | Natural site | ||
2012 - Cultural Landscape of Bali Province: the Subak System as a Manifestation of the Tri Hita Karana Philosophy | Cultural site |
Intangible Cultural Heritage
Recently UNESCO has begun to document the world's Intangible Cultural Heritage which includes "traditions or living expressions inherited from our ancestors and passed on to our descendants, such as oral traditions, performing arts, social practices, rituals, festive events, knowledge and practices concerning nature and the universe or the knowledge and skills to produce traditional crafts". The current listings for Indonesia are shown below - click on the links for more details.
Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity
2008 - Indonesian Kris | |
2008 - Wayang puppet theatre | |
2009 - Indonesian Batik | |
2010 - Indonesian Angklung |
Programmes, projects and activities for the safeguarding of intangible cultural heritage considered to best reflect the principles and objectives of the Convention
List of Intangible Cultural Heritage in Need of Urgent Safeguarding
2011 - Saman dance | |
2012 - Noken multifunctional knotted or woven bag, handcraft of the people of Papua |