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Celebrating Public Domain Day 2025 in Indonesia

By Rahma Azizah

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.



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