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3:00 PM-5:00 PM

Digitising Cultural Heritage: Practices, Collaboration, and Archival Resilience

Panel Discussion|Discussion on the process of digitising cultural heritage and its management.

  • Balai Sastra Hans Bague Jassin, Jakarta Pusat

  • Indonesian with simultaneous translation (English)
  • Free | With registration
  • Part of series: Digital Discourses 2026
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Digital Discourses 2026 © Goethe-Institut Indonesia - Each Other Company

Digital Discourses 2026 © Goethe-Institut Indonesia - Each Other Company

Digital documentation plays an increasingly important role in preserving and sharing cultural heritage. It enables manuscripts, artefacts, oral histories, and traditional practices to be recorded, organised, and accessed beyond their physical location. However, digitisation is not simply about scanning or recording; it demands thoughtful planning, responsible management, and long-term preservation strategies. Without robust systems, digital materials risk becoming inaccessible, fragmented, or lost over time.

This panel explores how digital documentation can support sustainable heritage management and strengthen heritage resilience over the long term—highlighting that the decisions made today will determine not only what is preserved, but how it is accessed and experienced by future generations.

Join the discussion on the role of preservation, digital documentation and management, as well as multilateral collaboration.

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  • is a researcher specializing in Javanese-Pegon, Malay-Jawi, and Arabic manuscripts. His work focuses on religious discourse, intellectual transformation, and living manuscripts. He earned degrees in Arabic literature and Islamic studies, completing his Ph.D. in 2025 on ritual manuscript use. He serves as Chair of the Indonesian Manuscript Society (Manassa) for 2025–2029 and is active as a journal editor and reviewer.

  • completed his master’s degree in philology from Universitas Indonesia in 2020 with a thesis on Wawacan Layang Siti Hasanah. He contributes significantly to the DREAMSEA program at UIN Jakarta as a data converter, supporting the preservation and digital documentation of endangered manuscripts in Southeast Asia. He also serves as assistant editor for Studia Islamika and Manuskripta, is active in Javanese script communities, and is also a member of Manassa.

  • holds a bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering from Institut Sains dan Teknologi Nasional and a master’s degree in Information Technology from Universitas Indonesia (2018). His career began at the National Archives of Indonesia (ANRI) in 2010 and became a First Expert Archivist in 2015. He is now a Senior Archivist, leads the Archive Restoration Team, and has served as Acting Director of Archive Preservation and Protection since March 2026.

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