Jogja and Central Java Hotels Association donate to UNESCO’s
Emergency Operation for the Safeguarding of Borobudur Temple Compounds
Mr. Muhamad Munir, chairman of the Jogja and Central Java
Hotels Association, officially handed over a donation of 56,192,000 IDR
to Mr. Masanori Nagaoka, Head of Culture unit of the UNESCO Office
Jakarta, on 14 December 2011 at the Sheraton Mustika Yogyakarta Resort
and Spa.
The donation was collected during the ‘Save Borobudur Charity Golf
Tournament’ one-day event, which was organised by the Jogja and Central
Java Hotels Association, under the auspices of UNESCO and the Friends of
Borobudur, at the Mt. Merapi Golf Club on 23 October in 2011. Some 40
participants from local and international parties joined this event to
show their support to UNESCO’s Safeguarding Borobudur operation.
Mr. Masanori Nagaoka of the UNESCO office in Jakarta was invited to
deliver a speech during the donation hand-over event. While expressing
his appreciation for their generous spirit of joining UNESCO’s
safeguarding operation financially, he shared the project’s
achievements, especially the progress of the emergency cleaning
operation which enlisted the full participation of the local community.
He also explained the planned future activities such as income
generation training workshops for the local community in the tourism and
cultural industries and workshops to improve awareness of Natural
Disaster Management at the World Heritage site.
A substantial amount of financial resources will still be required to
fully restore the Borobudur Temple Compounds, to rehabilitate the
cultural tourism sector and to enhance the livelihoods of affected local
communities in the region at large. UNESCO and the ‘Friends of
Borobudur’ (chaired by Mr. Warwick Purser) welcome any further financial
assistance from donors, the private sector and other concerned
partners, to safeguard the outstanding universal value of the Borobudur
Temple Compounds World Heritage Site.
The collected donation will be utilised to improve the local
stakeholders’ understanding regarding the potential of heritage tourism
as a sustainable way to generate income and to promote sustainable rural
development initiatives managed by the local communities.
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