April 1, 2022
DREAMSEA, Padang – On this manuscript preservation mission in West Sumatra, Indonesia, DREAMSEA visited three regions that have hundreds of ancient manuscripts. The three regions are Padang, Pesisir Selatan and Tarusan. The mission was carried out from 11 February-17 March 2022 in collaboration with the Manassa of Padang led by Dr. Pramono. 351 bundles of the manuscript were preserved from three different collections, namely the Chairul collection (102 manuscripts), Rakena collection (18 manuscripts), and Achmad Kosasih collection (231 manuscripts). The total digital images produced are more than 27,000 pages. Most of the manuscripts are written on paper in Arabic, Malay, […]
March 24, 2022
DREMSEA, Lampung – Manuscripts from the Lampung area have not been widely exposed in philological studies. DREAMSEA is very fortunate to have the opportunity to save 1,709 ancient Lampung manuscript pages from four different collections. This mission was carried out on March 18-24, 2022 in the areas of East Lampung and Bandar Lampung of the Lampung Province of Indonesia. 87 manuscripts were successfully digitised from the collections of four different owners, namely Mohamad Zakwan, Ahmad Amin, Arief Sofyan, and Buya. The mission was led by Titik Pudjiastuti (Academic Expert), Lisa Misliani (Assistant of Academic Expert), Benedictus Satrio (Photographer), and Arman […]
March 15, 2022
DREAMSEA, Praya – The DREAMSEA manuscript digitisation program has succeeded in preserving 18 manuscripts and producing 1,859 digital images of manuscript pages in the city of Praya, Central Lombok, West Nusatenggara Province, Indonesia. This mission has been carried out from March 4 -11, 2022. The manuscript comes from a collection owned by H. Najamudin. The mission was led by Jamaluddin as the academic expert, with team members Lalu Nafisah as an assistant academic expert, Alfan as the photographer, and Rahmatia Ayu as the assistant photographer. The manuscripts in the collection that were digitised this time are still used in a […]
December 15, 2021
Secara historis Nusantara memiliki banyak kerajaan dengan berbagai khazanah kebudayaannya. Beberapa di antaranya masih bertahan hingga kini. Selain sebagai lembaga adat dan budaya, kerajaan di Nusantara itu menyimpan warisan tak ternilai berupa manuskrip-manuskrip kuno secara turun temurun. Manuskrip dalam beberapa koleksi kerajaan Nusantara itu kini dapat diakses melalui berbagai repositori online, salah satunya melalui program DREAMSEA. Lalu apa saja khazanah koleksi manuskrip kerajaan di Nusantara yang sudah didigitalisasi? Bagaimana keadaannya saat ini? Bagaimana kisah pewarisannya? dan apa saja isi teksnya? Untuk menjawab pertanyaan-pertanyaan tersebut, program Digital Repository of Endangered Manuscripts in Southeast Asia (DREAMSEA) bekerja sama dengan Masyarakat Pernaskahan Nusantara […]
November 19, 2021
DREAMSEA, Kuningan – From 15 October until 13 November 2021, more manuscripts of the collection of Pangeran Madrais in Paseban Tri Panca Tunggal in Kuningan, West Java, Indonesia were digitised by DREAMSEA. This was the second stage in the preservation efforts to safe the manuscripts in Paseban as they are threatened of becoming damaged. Dr Tedi Permadi from the Universitas Pendidikan Indonesia acted as Academic Expert and team leader during this mission. He was assisted by Emmy Ratna Gumilang Damiasih from Paseban Tri Panca Tunggal Tim as Assistant Academic Expert, and by Surya who acted as photographer and Kurniawan as […]
October 28, 2021
Jakarta, DREAMSEA — After having assisted local society to digitize manuscripts in Southeast Asia for four years, DREAMSEA has launched its repository database on Friday, 1 October 2021. The launching was done via YouTube under the title “DREAMSEA Launch Southeast Asian Manuscripts Database”. From 2018 until 2021, DREAMSEA has executed 29 digitizing missions in various places in Southeast Asia. During these missions 4.274 manuscripts were digitized resulting in no less than 248.291 manuscript images. The database is very useful for society at large and especially for academics, religious persons, librarians, and people active in the arts and creative industry who […]
October 28, 2021
Karawang. DREAMSEA. The Digital Repository of Endangered and Affected Manuscripts in Southeast Asia (DREAMSEA) has returned to safe manuscripts in private collections in Indonesia. From 23 to 26 April 2021, 900 pages of numinous manuscripts from a number of regions in Karawang Regency in West Java have been digitized. The manuscripts come from five locations of which three form legacies now preserved by the gate keepers at the holy graves of Syekh Abidin Ciranggon, Mbah Ribiah Cikampek Pusaka and Kampung Gempol Bojong. The two other collections are kept in the Sukaluyu and Wadas regions and are privately owned. The manuscripts […]
April 20, 2021
Dreamsea.co – Welcoming the holy month of Ramadhan, the Center for Pesantren Studies (Pusat Studi Pesantren, PSP) of the Islamic Institute Qomaruddin Gresik took the initiative to preserve its Islamic manuscripts by having them digitised. This was done in cooperation with the Digital Repository of Endangered and Affected Manuscripts in Southeast Asia (DREAMSEA) which is executed by the Center for the Study of Islam and Society (Pusat Pengkajian Islam dan Masyarakat (PPIM) UIN Syarif Hidayatullah Jakarta the Centre for the Study of Manuscript Cultures (CSMC) of the University of Hamburg. The chairman of the PSP, Mohamad Anas, explained that the […]
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 […]
July 8, 2020
Dreamsea.co – DREAMSEA has resumed the digitisation of manuscripts from Cirebon after having halted the activity in early March 2020 due to the Covid-19 pandemic. In order to finish the digitisation of these manuscripts, the activity was resumed on 6 and 7 July by strictly following a health protocol. The digitisation was resumed by using a health protocol in order to ensure the health and safety of the digitising team and the PPIM staff. M. Nida Fadlan, the DREAMSEA Data Manager and digitisation field manager expressed that it was very important to continue the digitisation by making sure that the […]