Showing posts with label Indonesia. Dayak. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Indonesia. Dayak. Show all posts

Tuesday, May 17, 2011

US Officials Returned Artifacts to Indonesia

Officials in the United States hand over five Dayak hand carved 18th and 19th century Human Skulls to the Indonesian Consulate in New York.

According to The Wall Street Journal, those decorated Human Skulls raised suspicion when they arrived at a mail facility in Newark, New Jersey, last summer.
They were delivered from Bali, declared at a value of less than US$ 5, but  later, U.S. investigators determined the artifacts are actually worth US$ 3,000 to US$ 5,000 each.

This is a very good news. I hope that other countries would also be willing to return illegal artifacts to Indonesia.