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Jakarta (VOI News) - ASEAN documents the rich cultural heritage of its member countries through digital techniques in collaboration with Japan. Through the ASEAN Cultural Heritage Digital Archive-ACHDA website, ASEAN member countries are trying to preserve cultural heritage through cyberspace. After the launch of the ACHDA website at the ASEAN Secretariat, Wednesday 27 February, in Jakarta, the expert staff of the Minister of Education and Culture, Ananto Kusumaseta said that with the current millennial generation ACHDA website can see and learn about each other's cultural heritage.

“This website will be a part of young people in ASEAN, whose numbers are more than 60 percent to return and reflect on learning about the culture of our ancestors. The future development in ASEAN will focus on ASEAN culture,” said Ananto Kusumaseta.

Ananto Kusumaseta added Indonesia his now seeking cooperation in digitizing documents and repatriating artifacts abroad such as in the Netherlands and the United Kingdom. But according to Ananto, diplomacy and a rather long time period are needed to repatriate the artifacts. Based on information from the ASEAN Secretariat, only 3 countries are currently working on digitizing cultural heritage to be displayed on the ACHDA website. They are Indonesia, Malaysia and Thailand. While the second stage will be Myanmar, Laos, Vietnam and Cambodia. (VOI/TONO/AHM)