Spice Route

The cultural heritage is not limited to objects or sites or traditions but extends also to human movement or mobility, encounters and dialogue as well as cross-cultural exchanges occurring at certain places in history.

Kompas/Totok Wijayanto

A worker sorts nutmeg according to quality at a nutmeg collection center belonging to Kiong in Banda Neira, Banda Islands, Maluku, Tuesday (25/4/2018). After being sorted, the nutmeg is sent to Surabaya for processing.

In 2020, the Culture Directorate General of the Education and Culture Ministry launched the Spice Route program, a program related to efforts to strengthen Indonesia\'s position based on its location along global maritime routes and strengthen the maritime culture of the archipelago.

Despite having broad long-term goals, as a stepping stone in that direction, in the short term, the program designs that the Spice Route by 2024 will be recognized as World Cultural Heritage by UNESCO.