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Role of culture in the national sustainable development of indonesia
Description of the policy/measure
Programmes in education that emphasize on the importance of character building, so called 鈥渕ental revolution鈥, that are strongly related to cultural expressions that appreciate indonesia鈥檚 diversity.programmes related to the values of culture, arts, and films, including improvement in development of national films, film censorship, and management of national galleries, as well as involvement of indigenous peoples.programmes in tourism destinations, including improvement in the development of attractions, involvement of local communities, development of businesses, industries, and investment, and in marketing domestically and abroad, market research, and publications.
2005 Convention Monitoring Framework Goal(s)
Area(s) of Monitoring
Transversal Priority(ies)
Results achieved
In general, for the protection and promotion of diversity of cultural expressions, an increase between 2010 and 2014 was expected in the:number of quality national films produced from 75 to 391 titles;number of art and cultural works protected under intellectual property rights from 400 to 2000 pieces;number of art, cultural, and film works shows, exhibitions, and festivals facilitated from 83 to 415 events; andnumber of facilities for art and cultural works development, study, and shows facilitated from 25 to 529 infrastructures.the targets illustrate the new government priority accorded to cultural industries, especially those related to the creative economy, following the creation of the creative economy agency.
Financial resources allocated to the policy
State budget, in the sum of about usd 117,000,000 (approximated currency conversion from indonesian rupiah).
Evaluation of the policy/measure
Specifically related to the protection and promotion of diversity of cultural expressions, the evaluation revealed:increase in the appreciation of arts, culture, and films by the citizens of indonesia, supported by the facilitation of infrastructure development and arts and cultural shows and festivals in 25 provinces and 399 regencies in 2012;protection of the intellectual rights of 1,231 pieces of arts and culture;development of a national gallery;development of infrastructure and human resources in 25 cultural parks and facilitation of cultural infrastructure in 3,351 schools;organization of the first world culture forum in bali in 2013; andrecognition by unesco as an intangible cultural heritage of angklung (2010), saman dance (2011), and noken (2012), as well as recognition of bali cultural landscape (subak, 2012) as a world cultural heritage site.