Have You ever seen the old buildings around the neighborhood a place to stay? It could be the building-the building is a Heritage building. However, not all of the old buildings could hold this status.
Head of Department of Culture of the Province of DKI Iwan Hendy Ward said, the determination of an object, structure, or building into a cultural heritage should be according to the terms in the Legislation (ACT) No. 10 of the year 2020. “Those terms are aged 50 years or more and represents the style of the shortest 50-year-old,” he explained. Then, the building must have a special meaning for history, science, education, religion, and culture. The terms of his last buildings this should have a value of culture for the strengthening of the personality of the nation.
“While not all of the historic buildings located in Jakarta can be defined as buildings that are categorized cultural heritage because it does not have the criteria as mentioned in the ACT,” said Iwan.
To find out whether an object worthy of being a cultural heritage then it takes the study of the determination, which are usually delegated to a Team of Experts on Cultural Heritage.
This team comes from various fields of science who have a certificate of competence in the preservation of cultural heritage.
In the Province of DKI Jakarta and the Team of Experts of Cultural Heritage was appointed and confirmed by the Governor of DKI Jakarta Province.
According to Iwan, when an object wants to get the status as a cultural heritage, can start it by sending a formal request to the Department of Culture of the Province of DKI Jakarta.
After that, the application will be forwarded to the secretariat of the expert team of the cultural heritage of Jakarta. This team will provide information and instructions for form filling and submission of the determination of cultural heritage to the Applicant.
“A team of experts of cultural heritage will do the determination of the status of whether the object asked feasible or not to set as the cultural heritage in the form of technical recommendations,” said Iwan.
Technical recommendations will be submitted to the Head of the Department of Culture of Jakarta and forwarded to the Governor of DKI Jakarta.
On the basis of the considerations and recommendations of the Head of the Department of Culture DKI Jakarta then Governor of the Province of DKI Jakarta assign the related objects as cultural heritage the Provincial level.
136 Cultural Heritage
Based on the Decision of the Decision of the Governor of DKI Jakarta Number 475 1993, there are 136 buildings of cultural heritage.
In Jakarta there are 67 building, North Jakarta, 16 building, Jakarta Barat 35 building, South Jakarta, 7 buildings and Jakarta Timur 7 of the building.
Some of the heritage buildings in Jakarta for example, the Merdeka Palace (Palais Van G. G Rijswijk), the State Palace, Jakarta City Hall, Station Train Pasar Senen, Maritime Museum, Jama Masjid Tambora up Dwelling House of the Late General DI Panjaitan.
In addition to the many buildings of cultural heritage, the Province of DKI Jakarta also has two heritage area.
First, is The Old Town through a Decision of the Governor of DKI Jakarta Number 1766 2014.
The second is the cluster of the Island of Onrust, Cipir Island, Kelor Island, and Angel Island in the Administrative District of Kepulauan Seribu.
Determination is done through a Decree of the Governor of DKI Jakarta No. 2209 of the year 2015.
The preservation and utilization of the environment and cultural heritage buildings has been set in the Regional Regulation (Perda) khusus Ibukota Jakarta No. 9 of 1999.
While the benefits or advantages for the owners and managers of heritage buildings is entitled to get incentives in the form of the reduction of the land and building tax (PBB).
Metropolitan city like Jakarta has a dynamic development both in the function of political, economic, and social culture. This development is in line with the growth of the activity of urban communities in the vicinity.
Although the society evolved into a more modern, but the preservation of the Cultural Heritage buildings must still be done.
Therefore, need to be considered preservation measures and ways of proper utilization for buildings of Cultural Heritage.
“Through the involvement of the community is expected to preservation of Cultural Heritage buildings is not only done to keep the existence of the building, but also can increase the awareness of owners and managers as well as the surrounding environment,” said Iwan.
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