Prince’s dagger returned to Indonesia after 45 years lost in Dutch archive
Discovery of secret memos led to two-year search for 19th-century cultural treasure
Forty-five years after the Netherlands promised its return, a gold-inlaid dagger surrendered by a “rebel prince” after his failed 1830 uprising against Dutch rule in Indonesia has been handed back to Jakarta.
The kris, a dagger with a waved blade, was among a number of Prince Diponegoro’s belongings that the Netherlands’ vowed in 1975 to return, only for the priceless cultural treasure to go missing.
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