Two objects from the Rijksmuseum and one from the Wereldmuseum in Amsterdam are being returned to the Indonesian state.
They are a diamond, a traditional sword and a handwritten Quran, all thought to have been looted or obtained under duress during the colonial period.
Twenty pieces in total
Culture minister Rianne Letschert announced on Friday 9 October that twenty collection pieces in all will go back to Indonesia, following advice from the Colonial Collections Committee.
She said the return helps to repair a historical injustice, because the objects carry great cultural and historical value for Indonesia and never belonged in the Netherlands.
A sword linked to Frits van Daalen
The sword had been in the Rijksmuseum’s collection since 2004.
Its first known owner was Frits van Daalen, who became governor of Aceh in 1904 and commander of the KNIL, the colonial army, in 1910.
Even his contemporaries regarded him as extremely violent.
Captured weapons were meant to be handed over to the Dutch government, but he often ignored that rule and kept them for himself.
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