April 13, 2021
Dreamsea.co – Indramayu is a region where manuscripts are still found in large numbers while it also has an abundance of intangible culture. The manuscripts in the region still play a vital role in many cultural activities the Indramayu people engage in. However, because they are still widely used but often ill treated, these manuscripts also run the danger of becoming damaged and their condition is indeed often rather bad. It is for this reason that DREAMSEA (Digital Repository of Endangered and Affected Manuscripts in Southeast Asia) took up a mission to safeguard the manuscripts owned by the Indramayu people […]
April 6, 2021
The Serat Damar Wulan discussed here is an old manuscript owned by Bapak Sucipto in Banyuwangi at the tip of East Java. DREASMEA has digitized the manuscript in March 2019 and it has been given the number DS 0038 00001. The manuscript is interesting because, unlike other manuscripts of the Damar Wulan story, it is written in pegon script rather than Javanese script used in most other manuscripts of the poetic and prose versions of this text. Pegon script is Arabic script adapted to the requirements of the Javanese language. The simple fact that a pegon version of the Serat […]
April 1, 2021
JAKARTA – Indonesia memiliki kekayaan manuskrip yang sangat beragam, mulai dari aksara, bahasa, bahan, hingga tradisinya. Upaya pelestarian berupa preservasi dan konservasi sedang giat dilakukan oleh berbagai lembaga maupun perorangan. Digitalisasi merupakan salah satu upaya preservasi dengan mengalihmediakan manuskrip ke dalam format digital untuk kemudian disajikan secara daring dengan akses terbuka. Read the full article
March 22, 2021
In Bali, many palm leaf manuscripts (called lontar) contain texts on medicine, black and white magic and almanac divination, or combinations of any of the three. In Bali the three different subjects are not clearly demarcated and one simply flows over into the other. It is good to bear in mind that in Bali, the boundaries between philosophy, religion, history, divination and sorcery, and medicine are diffuse and not the same as in other cultures. They are moreover intertwined and for that reason not always understandable to outsiders. Mostly, manuscripts on medicine, magic and divination consist of miscellaneous texts each […]
March 5, 2021
In August 2018, DREAMSEA organized its first field digitization mission of manuscript in Ogan Komering Ilir in South Sumatra. The DREAMSEA team consisted of four-persons, Nyimas Umi Kalsum who acted as academic expert, Muhammad Daud as assistant academic expert, Tedi Permadi as photographer, and Surya Selfika as assistant photographer. The mission was a challenge because it was the first such mission DREAMSEA organized. The decision to choose these team members was based on the consideration that some of them like Nyimas and Daud live in the area where the manuscripts were going to be digitized. DREAMSEA assumed, correctly, that it […]