Restoration Program
Friday, 04 June 2010 16:01 | 
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Preserving Indonesia’s cultural heritages is based on Javanese cultural proverbs which are managing and conserving the surroundings. Therefore, it is beneficial for current and future generations. These Javanese proverbs are:
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"memayu hayuning bawana", means preserve, protect and save the world and also conserve cultural heritage;
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“wewangan kang umure luwih saka paroning abad, haywa kongsi binabad, becik den mulyakna kadya wujude hawangun”, means every materials or buildings which are 50 years old are consider historical and cultural remains and should be use as research, add knowledge to achieve developments and beneficial for people and its surroundings;
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”yen wis kliwat separo abad, jwa kongsi binabad”, means if any materials or buildings are half decade old, therefore it is advisable not to be destructed.
Indonesian Railways Conservation and Heritage Department has made a guideline about TECHNICAL CONSERVATION GUIDELINES OF RAILWAY BUILDING for the first step on establishing this department. These technical guidelines will be the main reference for conservation, preservation and revitalization of Indonesian heritage railway remains, in order to preserve its uniqueness and value. Therefore, it will not be extinct due to modernization of old buildings which did not use any conservation, preservation and revitalization principles and aesthetics towards the ancient and historic buildings.
BUILDING
| 1 | Lawang Sewu Building, Semarang |
Work Steps :
Building damage data collection
New fence construction
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| 2 | Parahyangan Homestead, Bandung |
Work Steps :
Building damage data collection
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| 3 | Solo Jebres station |
Work Steps :
Building damage data collection
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| 4 | Signal home of Tanjung Priuk station |
Work Steps :
Building damage data collection
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NON BUILDING
| 1 | D300 23 diesel locomotive |
Work Steps :
damage data collection
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| 2 | UH-995 manual crane |
Work Steps :
damage data collection |
| 3 | C12 18 steam locomotive |
Work Steps :
damage data collection |
Historical heritage material preservation as mandate in UU No 5 Year 1992 especially from architectural aspect become one off it’s attractiveness. Old and historical building maintenance will become bridge for today and future. A nation will become bigger if they look to their past and took some learn from it.
Preservation purpose is to protect, fixing old and historic buildings. Conservation is an action to keep old and historic building in whole with traditional and or modern ways by synthetic or today’s material.
Old building term is used to show building or static object like building, settlement, historical sites, artistic, architecture, social, culture and science.
Conservation consists of area maintenance including the building so cultural value that stored in it, like beauty, history, science and social in past, now and future still maintain.
