Shipwrecks and their cargo can be sites of conflict – but also opportunity.
A lot of the recent talk about maritime issues in Southeast Asia has focused on issues such as security, the Blue Economy , law enforcement and climate change. But there’s one maritime challenge that’s gone underdiscussed: underwater heritage.
To do this, we need to figure out where an item originally came from by applying the latest methods of archaeological science. Talking with local communities and authorities is another important way of gathering information about which shipwreck a particular object might have come from. A 2001 UNESCO convention prioritises protection and preservation of these sites, and international cooperation to achieve those goals. The central idea is that cultural heritage can help foster local, national and regional identity.
Our project seeks to reconnect “orphaned” objects – cultural objects that have been recovered unethically, illegally or in some other problematic way. One example is underwater sites that have been commercially salvaged rather than scientifically excavated. Take, for example, the 9th century shipwreck discovered in 1998 in waters near Belitung Island, Indonesia. Indonesian laws at the time clearly allowed commercial operators to salvage shipwrecks in its territorial waters, even if this went against international standards established by UNESCO.
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