GLAM/Newsletter/May 2025/Contents/Indonesia report

This Month in GLAM – Volume XV, Issue V, May 2025

Indonesia report

GLAM Wiki Month 2025 in Indonesia

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.

Adu zatua ancestor statue
Bola nafo (betel leaf pouch)
Adu Siraha Salawa ancestor statue
Tacula tefao (War helmet)

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