Jakarta (ANTARA News) - Indonesia and Malaysia have already reached an understanding on how to settle cases in which Indonesian cultural products are claimed by Malaysia, a Foreign Ministry spokesman said.
Speaking to journalists here on Friday, Indonesian Foreign Ministry spokesman Kristiarto Soeryo Legowo said there already was an understanding between Indonesia`s culture minister and his Malaysian counterpart on what to do when things undeniably belonging to Indonesia are claimed by parties in Malaysia. The Malaysian side had promised that when such cases happened it would take the necessary steps to settle them.
"I think we can trust Malaysia to keep its promise so that the many kinds of trouble such cases will otherwise give rise to can be avoided," he said.
About the recent case in which Malaysia presented a Reog Ponorogo show as being a Malaysian cultural product, Kristiarto said the Art Directorate of the Culture and Tourism Ministry was currently investigating it.
"Certainly the investigation is not only made in Indonesia, but it is also aimed at making an assurance regarding the culture or the art which is also performed in Malaysia who later claimed it as part of its cultural legacy," he said.
In the near future, it was expected the results of the research could be disseminated to the public.
Early this week, there was a rumor in the internet that the Malaysian Cultural Art and Legacy Ministry had claimed Barongan which was like Ponorogo to be part of Malaysia.
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