Pustaka Ilmiah Universitas Padjadjaran

Abstrak

Reforming ‘Public Domain’ The Role Of Public Domain In Indonesian Cultural Community: The Cases Of Legong Keraton Peliatan Balinese Dance, Sumba Woven Clothes. And Ulin Kalimantan Timber

This presentation would be based on a view that the examples of Traditional Cultural Expressions explained in this paper are geographically originated from Indonesian archipelago. Thus, as a nation which are bound by the same socio-political and cultural history, Indonesia is also regarded as a big cultural community that includes hundreds of ethnic groups, tribal peoples, and traditional as well as local communities, where thousands of Traditional Knowledge, Traditional Cultural Expressions and millions of Genetic Resources related to Traditional Knowledge are situated and maintained from generation to generation by Indonesian people. Although Indonesia now is known as a form of a modern state, the development of its original social-political and cultural jurisdiction is mainly rooted from the archipelagic traditional concept of the unity of Nusantara (nusa means islands, ‘antara’ means the spaces between the islands). Epics about the vow of Gajah Mada from Majapahit Kingdom to unite thousands of islands of Nusantara under Java empires strongly indicate that this concept had been established hundred years before the first ship from Europe ‘found’ Indonesian archipelago in the 16th century.