GLAM/Indonesia/2024-2025
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2024 Half-a-year in Review
After a year of absence in reporting GLAM Indonesia activities, we are happy to share our 2024 half a year in review. Here they are:
Celebration of Indonesian Public Domain Day 2024
This January, Wikimedia Indonesia and the Goethe-Institut Jakarta collaborated to celebrate Indonesian Public Domain Day 2024 with a series of discussions on “Copyright and Artificial Intelligence.”
These discussions brought various advancements and improvements offered by AI tools that will be utilized in assisting human work, including for GLAM institutions, to the fore. On the other hand, unclear legal regulations and policies pose a challenge to using AI in Indonesia. As users, we should be ethically aware and responsible, especially when creating works incorporating data or works from other sources. We would also need to reconsider who would benefit the most and who would not from the usage of AI tools, as well as how to make its usage more sustainable and equitable.
Read our full report here.
Wikisource Competitions in Indonesian and Javanese language
We held two Wikisource competitions (edit-a-thons/proofreading contests) in the languages of Indonesia: Indonesian Wikisource, and Javanese Wikisource both in March 2024.
Within two weeks, the Javanese Wikisource Competition transcribed and proofread 20 Javanese books with Latin letters and 13 books in Javanese script with a total of 3,376 pages.
The Indonesian language Wikisource competition has way more gigantic statistics because it was participated not only by Javanese speakers but also by Indonesian speakers nationwide. By the end of the competition, 69 old Indonesian language books were successfully proofread with a total of 14,020 pages.
GLAM-Wiki Month 2024
Celebrating International Museum Day in May, we present GLAM-Wiki Month or Bulan Wiki GLAM. This is our initial activity dedicated to enriching GLAM Indonesia content on the Wikimedia projects for a month. It is going to be our annual thematic activity for the following years. Following the ICOM International Museum Day, we focused on organizing events on Museums for Education and Research.
We held a series of events such as GLAM Talks, #1Lib1Ref Campaign, GLAM Challenge on Wikipedia, and Datathon during May 2024.
GLAM Talks
We discuss the role and contribution of museums in the realm of research and education which has become the main role for the museum itself. However, in practice, this role is still less felt, especially in museums in Indonesia. In some cases, museums are also lacking in communicating the information and knowledge stored by these institutions to the wider public. Information about museum collections seems to stop in the museum buildings themselves.
#1Lib1Ref campaign
The #1Lib1Ref campaign invites librarians, researchers, book lovers, contributors to Wikimedia projects, and knowledge lovers to add references to articles on Wikipedia related to GLAM institutions.
GLAM Challenge on Wikipedia
The GLAM Challenge on Wikipedia was an edit-a-thon that challenged participants to write articles on museums in Indonesia. Over 14 days, 19 participants have taken part in the GLAM Challenge on Wikipedia 2024. A total of 203 articles have been submitted via a tool named Fountain.
Here is the list of participants and their submitted articles.
Datathon
Datathon is an edit-a-thon on Wikidata on a certain topic. In this GLAM Wiki Month, participants were challenged to edit the data of museum in Indonesia
Celebrating Public Domain Day 2025 in Indonesia
Each year, we celebrate Public Domain Day, which falls on January 1st, by collaborating with partners on activities that explore the idea of open culture and cultural freedom. This year, Wikimedia Indonesia and Creative Commons Indonesia held a series of events to celebrate International Public Domain Day 2025. These activities included a walking tour and a meet-up, both in collaboration with the Wikimedia Jakarta Community, and a small, fun challenge called Kurasi Digital, or Digital Curation.
For about a month, we hosted Kurasi Digital, a challenge that invited the public to respond to and recreate new works from public domain materials scattered across the internet. Participants could present their work in various forms, such as digital exhibitions, photo essays, articles, annotations on public domain works, derivative works, and so on. The results were quite interesting. Here are the top three creators who participated in the challenge
Abrid Madilantoro: Javart Nouveau: Javanese Decorative Asset (First winner)
Abrid drew inspiration from the illuminated manuscript Chronicle of a Javanese Court in Yogyakarta (1800–1849), also known as Wedana Renggan, to create decorative assets. The manuscript's illuminations share stylistic similarities with the 19th-century European Art Nouveau movement, which Abrid termed "Javart Nouveau."
Yolanda Wahidatunisa: Warisan André Derain: Melacak Jejak Fauvisme di Era Digital (Second winner)
Yolanda conducted a study of the works of André Derain, a pioneer of Fauvism, a visual style that uses bright colors and expressive lines. In Derain's works, color no longer functions merely to depict objects realistically, but rather to convey feelings and moods. Yolanda presented Derain's works in the form of portraits, still lifes, and landscapes.
Arya Danendra Kurnia Dipraja: (Impresi) Hindia Indah (Third winner)
Arya compiled a collection of paintings from several painters, ranging from European descendants to indigenous people who visited and stayed in the Dutch East Indies and created paintings in the Mooi Indie style. He intentionally collected these curated paintings to tell a story while conveying an impression: Beautiful Indies.
And here are some of the documentations from the walking tour. We explored some of historical sites in Jakarta such as National Archive Building, Chinese neighborhood in Glodok, and several museums around Old Batavia.
GLAM Wiki Month 2025 in Indonesia
Since 2024, Wikimedia Indonesia has hosted GLAM Wiki Month (Bulan Wiki GLAM), a thematic annual event held every May. This dedicated month features a series of activities related to Galleries, Libraries, Archives, and Museums (GLAM), and also celebrates International Museum Day on May 18th. While museums are a focus, this year's event expanded to include the #1Lib1Ref Campaign, Wikidata training, a Datathon, Wiki Loves Museum, and GLAM Talk.
1Lib1Ref
1Lib1Ref is a Wikipedia campaign that encourages librarians, researchers, book lovers, and knowledge enthusiasts to enrich Wikipedia articles by adding references from libraries and other literary sources. This edition of #1Lib1Ref encourage contributors to add references to articles about Indonesian galleries, libraries, archives, and museums on Indonesian Wikipedia.
Wikidata training & Datathon
WikiLatih Wikidata is a training activity focused on editing Wikidata. During GLAM Wiki Month, Wikimedia Indonesia is holding a Wikidata editing training session on the theme of "Indonesian Cultural Heritage Diversity" data items. While Datathon is a competition to make as many Wikidata edits as possible on a specific topic. Participants are challenged to edit data related to museums in Indonesia.
GLAM Talk
GLAM Talk is a sharing session related to GLAM initiatives both in and out of Wikimedia projects. This year, we invited our grantees of Micro Grant for GLAM Indonesia to present their projects.
We had Ahmad Ginanjar Purnawibawa presented his project Digitization of Nias Ethnographic Collections in Italy. This project is an effort to decolonize and restore the access of the Nias community’s ancestral heritage stored in Italian museums through open catalogs and databases.
The output of this project includes digitized Nias ethnographic collections from Florence's Museum of Anthropology and Ethnology, and a catalog book named Ono Niha Cultural Heritage in Italy. All final project materials can now be accessed via this category page on Wikimedia Commons.
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Adu Siraha Salawa ancestor statue -
Tacula tefao (War helmet)
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Regina Dwi Salsa & Widiatmoko Putranto presented their project Open Access in LAM: Research Studies on National LAM of Indonesia. This research explores the potential and risks surrounding the situation of digitizing cultural collections in Indonesian national LAM (Libraries, Archives, and Museums) institutions at the intersection between the work needs of preserving collections and the demands of providing access to information.
And the last, Faizzatus Sa’diyah, Syefri Luwis, and Dina Serevina Sinaga with their project Inquiry and Digitization of ICOM Indonesia's Trajectory Archives. By tracing ICOM Indonesia's documents and archives from Paris to Jakarta, this project aims to reconstruct Indonesia's role in the international museum network and enhance public and cultural community access. A book will be the project's output
Wiki Loves Museum
Wiki Loves Museums (Wiki Cinta Museum) is a photowalk and edit-a-thon event designed to increase information and content about Indonesian museums on Wikimedia Commons, Wikidata, and Wikipedia. This activity was held collaboratively and in parallel by six Wikimedia Communities across Indonesia: Wikimedia Community Bandung, Madura, Banjarnegara, Manokwari, Medan, and Palembang. They are altogether visiting their local museums and historical site on May 18, 2025 to celebrate International Museum Day.
All the photo resulted from the event are available in this category: Category:Wiki Cinta Museum 2025
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Painting of the Exile of Sultan Mahmud Badaruddin II -
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Jesus the King of Mansinam statue -
Muhammad TWH personal archive -
The Barongan, mythical character in Lengger dance -
Palembang traditional wedding stage -
Newspaper collection at Museum Perjuangan Pers North Sumatera
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Another publication from Grant for GLAM Indonesia program & Minangkabau Wikisource Competition upadate
This June, we're celebrating the release of ICOM Indonesia Dari Masa ke Masa (ICOM Indonesia Through the Years), a book by grantees of our Grant for GLAM Indonesia program. We also supported a Minangkabau Wikisource Competition, hoping it will get more contributions and be released into its own domain, out of the multilingual Wikisource project.
ICOM Indonesia Through the Years
This June, Syefri Luwis, Dina S. Sinaga and Faizzatus Sa'diyah released their book ICOM Indonesia Dari Masa ke Masa or, ICOM Indonesia Through the Years, which is also the result from their project supported by the Wikimedia Indonesia Grant for GLAM Indonesia program.
The International Council of Museums (ICOM) is an organization that works to promote professional standards in how museums are run and have the mission to strengthen connections between museums worldwide. This organization born in 1946 as a respond to all the damage World War II has caused to museum collections around the globe. In Indonesia, the ICOM Indonesia National Committee didn't even form until 1970, and they didn't really get their organizational structure set up until 2007.
This book shed light on the history of ICOM Indonesia from the 1970s all the way to the 2020s. It also includes archival records of Indonesian museum professionals, like Amir Sutaarga (the National Museum of Indonesia), Nunus Supardi, KR T. Thomas Haryonagoro (Ullen Sentalu Museum), etc., including their participations to the international conferences organized by ICOM. On top of that, the authors even got the chance to access some of the archives from ICOM's headquarter in Paris and published it on the book.
Minangkabau Wikisource Competition
We also held a Proof-read-a-thon competition on Wikisource Minangkabau, which is part of the larger multilingual Wikisource project. This activity was a key effort by the Padang Wikimedia Community to increase contributions, aiming to help the project soon get its own dedicated domain. This would put it in the same league as the Javanese, Sundanese, and Balinese Wikisource projects, which have already secured theirs.
The event attracted 25 participants who successfully proofread 3,326 pages from 30 books provided by the committee. Most of these manuscripts—29, to be exact—were Minangkabau-language books, along with one Jawi-language, or Malay-Arabic script, book. The competition concluded with Janniba Arifah in first place and Happywu finished as runner-up.
Some of the book list
Special mention
A big and special thanks goes to Hadithfajri and Zhilal Darma, the core committee members behind this activity! They actively gathered Minangkabau-speaking volunteers and supported them from the initial "Kopdar" (Gathering Meeting) and "WikiLatih" (Training) sessions right through to the competition's conclusion.
Grant for GLAM Indonesia is open!
We are open to your most creative ideas!
Wikimedia Indonesia invites researchers, arts, culture & heritage practitioners, archivists, and communities working in the field of Indonesian galleries, libraries, archives, and museums to submit their ideas for the Grant for GLAM Indonesia 2025 program.
You can submit research, technology development, or creative projects that uphold the principles of openness in terms of access and dissemination. We are particularly keen to support projects that explore the intersection of local knowledge and digital technology for preservation and broader access.
This grant supports small scale project for Indonesian only. For more information about the program, please visit this Meta page.
Save the date
Submit your application by 3 October 2025.
WikiCommon community meet-ups, Wikisource trainings, and the announcement of Grant for GLAM Indonesia
Wikimedia Commons and Wikisource Activities in October
In October, several communities across Indonesia held Wikimedia Commons meet-ups and Wikisource Training session to enhance contributors’ skill and documentation Indonesian’s culture and heritage. Banjar negara community (12/10), Yogyakarta Community (18/10), east Java Community and Bandarlampung Community (25/10) organized Wikimedia Commons meet-up, each with different theme. In Banjarnegara, contributors documented traditional snacks from Banjar negara, many of them still exist today and can be found in Banjarnegara. The meet-up aimed to introduce traditional snacks to wider audience through freely licensed images on Wikimedia Commons.
Yogyakarta Community gathered at Museum Affandi, where the contributors in that meet ups they documented museum collection and some artworks. The Gathering made contributors explored culture and legacy in museum Affandi.
Wikimedians from East Java joined the Gandrung Sewu Festival, which is an obvious event to celebrate east Javanese tradition. It was a perfect opportunity to capture Indonesian’s performing art. During the event, contributors documented the beauty of the culture and share it on Wikimedia Commons to promote open access to local heritage.
At the same time Bandarlampung community gathered at Museum Lampung “Ruwai Jurai”, contributors documented museum collections and showcased the diversity of Lampung’s cultural heritage, with exhibits covering the province’s history, culture, flora, fauna, geology, and ethnography.
Meanwhile Denpasar and Palembang held a training session for increase number of contributors. Denpasar Community (25/10) held a Wikisource Training session with Institut Agama Hindu Negeri Mpu Kuturan Singaraja to support and introduce WikiPustaka Competition 2025 . The training focused on proofreading and validating text in Balinese script. Training participants understand the tools, code and workflow on Wikisource through the training session the participants were encouraged and prepared to join WikiPustaka competition.
Palembang Wikimedia Community (26/10) organized Wikimedia Commons Training to introduced Wikimedia Commons to new users. During the session, participants learned how to upload images and apply proper licensed, understand Commons policies. The community also encouraged newcomers, especially that interested in photography, to contribute their work to Wikimedia Commons and become part of the Open Knowledge.
All these events encouraged the participants and continued the enthusiasm of Wikimedian in supporting Open knowledge. Through Commons and Wikisource, communities across the country are helping preserve Indonesia’s cultural, artistic, and literary heritage, making it freely accessible to the world.
Announcement of the Grant for GLAM Indonesia recipients
Last September we opened a call for individual, community or GLAM institution to submit their proposal for Grant for GLAM Indonesia. During the open call, we received more than 180 proposals submitted by applicants from 27 provinces in Indonesia, which is a very great number for this small grant!
Here are the list of the recipients:
- Luna Hapsari & Kris K., propose a digitization project for over 200 tangible cultural heritage artifacts from the Banda Cultural Museum collection. These bilingual digital archives will be disseminated openly and freely through the Banda Heritage and Culture Foundation website, Wikimedia Commons, and the Banda Naira University network.
- Sadri Rahmad, propose a project for documenting and archiving the cultural heritage of the Dayak Ibanik-Bidayuhik in West Kalimantan, specifically focusing on oral stories and artifacts. The project will involve recording oral narratives (including myths, legends, and history) from tribal elders, as well as digitizing photos of artifacts.
- Abrid Madilantoro & Tyas Panorama Nan Cerah, propose a reactivation and revitalitation of the ornamental styles of Nusantara manuscripts, such as the Wedana Renggan from Javanese texts and illuminations from ancient Qur'an manuscripts, into the digital realm. Their main activity involves tracing ornaments from public domain manuscripts (e.g., the Leiden and National Library collections), re-illustrating them as high-resolution vector visual assets (with a target of at least 40 illustrations), and share them freely to Wikimedia Commons.
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Javanese illumination from Serat Selarasa
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Congratulations! We are looking forward to see their result in the first half of 2026.
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