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This Month in GLAM – Volume XV, Issue VI, June 2025

Indonesia report

Another publication from Grant for GLAM Indonesia program & Minangkabau Wikisource Competition upadate

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.

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