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It explains how nationalist Indonesian claims over objects held in the Netherlands stimulated decolonisation processes by reshaping political relations, identities, and attitudes in both Indonesia and the Netherlands between 1947 and 1978. The discussion frames restitution debates around political and cultural ownership, representation, legitimation, and authorization, illustrated through early Indonesian claims involving Nāgarakrtāgama, Prajñāpāramitā, and the Dubois fossil collection.","bmg n - Low Countries Historical Review | Volume 133-2 (2018) | pp. 91-104  \nMirrors of Time and Agents of Action  \nIndonesia’s Claimed Cultural Objects and Decolonisation, 1947-1978  \ncaroline d rieënhuizen  \n91  \nIn this article I will contend that decolonisation of colonial collections is not only about repatriation of cultural objects or researching object’s provenance. A few years ago, historian Claire Wintle argued how material culture both reflected and exercised agency on processes of decolonization. Here will be shown how decolonisation, the attempts of undoing colonialism, the repositioning of political relations andreformulation of identities and attitudes, was already stimulated, in both Indonesia and the Netherlands, by Indonesia’s nationalistic claims on Netherlands owned objects. These claims and resulting discussion on object’s possible restitution were more than anything else about political and cultural ownership, representation, legitimation and authorization. This will be illustrated by the history and background of one of Indonesia’s earliest claims on return of cultural patrimony: the Nāgarakrtāgama, Prajñāpāramitā and the Dubois collection of fossils.  \nIn dit artikel wordt gesteld dat dekolonisatie van koloniale collecties niet enkelbegrepen moet worden als zijnde de teruggave van cultureel erfgoed naar het land van herkomst ofals een onderzoek naar de herkomst van objecten. Claire Wintle betoogde enkele jaren geleden dat materiële cultuur niet enkel dekolonisatieprocessen reflecteerde, maar er ook invloed op uitoefende. Ik laat zien hoe dekolonisatie, als de poging tot het ongedaan maken van kolonialisme, de herpositionering van politiekerelaties en herbepaling van identiteiten en mentaliteiten, reeds gestimuleerd werd door nationalistisch geïnspireerde Indonesische claims op objecten die zich in Nederlands bezit bevonden. Deze claims en de daaruit voortvloeiende restitutie-discussies draaiden om niets anders dan politiek en cultureel eigenaarschap, representatie, legitimatie en authorisatie. Dit wordt geïllustreerd aan de hand van de geschiedenis enachtergrond van één van de vroegste claims van Indonesië op teruggave van cultureelerfgoed: de Nāgarakrtāgama, Prajñāpāramitā en collectie fossielen van Dubois.  \nPublished by Royal Netherlands Historical Society | knhg  \nCreative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License [doi](doi: 10.18352/bmgn-lchr.10552 | www.bmgn-lchr.nl | e-issn 2211-2898 | print issn 0165-0505)[: 10.18352/bmgn-lchr.10552 | www.bmgn-lchr.nl | e-](doi: 10.18352/bmgn-lchr.10552 | www.bmgn-lchr.nl | e-issn 2211-2898 | print issn 0165-0505)[issn](doi: 10.18352/bmgn-lchr.10552 | www.bmgn-lchr.nl | e-issn 2211-2898 | print issn 0165-0505)[ 2211-2898 | print](doi: 10.18352/bmgn-lchr.10552 | www.bmgn-lchr.nl | e-issn 2211-2898 | print issn 0165-0505)[ issn](doi: 10.18352/bmgn-lchr.10552 | www.bmgn-lchr.nl | e-issn 2211-2898 | print issn 0165-0505)[ 0165-0505](doi: 10.18352/bmgn-lchr.10552 | www.bmgn-lchr.nl | e-issn 2211-2898 | print issn 0165-0505)  \nforum  \nIntroduction  \nAll authors in this forum demonstrate how a myriad of objects, collected in colonial times and through questionable methods in many cases, travelled from Dutch or Belgian colonies to the metropole. Discussions on the future of these objects, burdened by a provenance that Maarten Couttenier and Jos van Beurden rightly advocate investigating, are still more complex and sensitive.  \nJos van Beurden considers the restitution of objects tobe important in decolonisation, in recent historiography perceived as an open, long-term dynamic and complex political and social process in the former metropole and colony alike.1 Like AjengAyu Arainikasih and Hafnidar, I believe that the decolonisation of colonial collections is broader than repatriating cultural patrimony or researching provenance. 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