Developing Heritage Trails in Historic Yogyakarta and Batavia
AusHeritage is currently engaged in two projects in Indonesia, led by Rodney Jensen, an AusHeritage Member (supported by Members, Professor Ken Taylor, Co-Director, Cultural Research Centre, University of Canberra, Graham Brook, Graham Brooks & Associates and Guy Petherbridge, Cultural Asset Management & Heritage Technologies) – and underwritten by the Australia-Indonesia Institute (a bilateral country council of DFAT) – to develop heritage trails for the historic areas of the walled Kraton of Yogyakarta and the old Dutch capital area of Batavia and its port of Sunda Kelapa in Jakarta. Both sites are of immense heritage significance and face extreme challenges posed by the impact of a rapidly growing and changing society and constraints on preservation and conservation resources.
ASEAN-COCI/AusHeritage Cultural Mapping Capacity Building Project
One of the outcomes of the joint ASEAN-Australia ASEAN-COCI/AusHeritage Project to Develop a Regional ASEAN Policy and Strategy for Cultural Heritage Management was the recognition that, as ASEAN continues to strengthen systems for cultural heritage management, the development of a model for mapping regional cultural resources will provide highly valuable as a fundamental tool for development by providing data for setting priorities for the conservation and preservation of assets in the region.
Bruce Pettman Undertakes World Heritage Mission to Taiwan
In October 2002, Bruce Pettman, Principal Heritage Architect, New South Wales Department of Public Works and Services Heritage Design Services (AusHeritage Member), spent eleven days in Taiwan assessing eleven sites chosen by the Taiwan Government for consideration as potential World Heritage status.