Collection burned in French

JANINE HELGA GROENEVELD WAROKKAReplika sailing ship Batavia in Batavia Stad, Lelystad, Netherlands.

When we entered the old building of the National Museum, commonly referred to as Building a statue, some colored stone statue looks somewhat blackish. Color so it was not usual. Arguably this is the statue of abnormal, although signs of iconographical element is still evident with statues.

Compared to other stone statues, statues that ever trip to abnormal foreign tourists. At the time, the French Government hosted the 1931 Exposition Coloniale Internationale in the Bois de Vincennes. In the colonial exhibition, Museum van Het Bataviaasch Genootschaap van Kunsten there en Arts, which is now a National Museum, participated.

Many of the museum's collection were carried off. More collections comes from the Leiden Museum and private collections of Batavia. The main purpose of the colonial Exhibition was to reveal and celebrate Europe's cultural and political forces that might have touched the darkest corners up to and most backward on this earth.

Explicitly, most likely purpose is as a tool of propaganda exhibition each Government. There was even a party signals that his goal to provide awareness to the audience will force Nations colonist in dominating the natives. When it was a lot of media in France and the Netherlands, writing exhibit followed most great Hindia Netherlands as well as the most evil (Gouda, 2007).

Venues of the Netherlands East Indies, among others, featuring architecture and architecture of temple House, gadang judged very unusual. Moreover, the existence of performance ability by the dancers of Bali. Dear exhibition that tarnished due to a fire on June 8, 1931. A fire that lasted five hours, several venues and scorch the contents. Among the various collections there is metal, fabric, jewelry, and wood artifacts. Join the destroyed painting Raden Saleh's Buffalo and lion. The are a number of rather good fate statue stone.

The cause of the fire is still mysterious. There is a suspect because of the short circuit current. A handful of parties regard as sabotage because previous disasters had hit the Netherlands colonial Government in one of its possessions.

According to the conclusions of the Chief of police, character building exhibit caused a bridge that is flammable. While according to the technician, power lines in the Netherlands East Indies Pavilion that has been very good.

(Djulianto Susantio, observer of history and culture)