On October 13, 2026, the opening of the International Training Seminar of the UNESCO Memory of the World Programme on the theme: “Expanding the Possibilities of Documentary Diversity” took place in the capital of Indonesia, Jakarta.
The main goal of the seminar is to strengthen international cooperation and build the human and technical capacity of countries in the Asia-Pacific region for the effective preservation and nomination of valuable documentary heritage for the international Register of the UNESCO Memory of the World Programme.
The event was organized by the National Archives of the Republic of Indonesia (ANRI) in cooperation with the National Commission for UNESCO in Korea and Indonesia, as well as the Korean Heritage Service.
The opening of the seminar was attended by Indonesian Deputy Minister of Culture Giring Ganesha and the head of the UNESCO Memory of the World Committee for Asia and the Pacific, Kwibe Kim.
This year’s seminar is set to be the largest in the history of UNESCO’s Memory of the World Programme, bringing together representatives from countries across the Asia-Pacific region, including Bangladesh, Brunei, Cambodia, Fiji, Indonesia, Laos, Myanmar, Palau, the Philippines, Sri Lanka, Timor-Leste, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, and Tuvalu. Leading international experts in the field of documentary heritage preservation have arrived in Jakarta to participate in the seminar .
The training seminar agenda includes practical tasks such as teaching methods for nominating elements, assessing the physical condition of collections, risk management, and preparing materials for long-term digital preservation, among others.
Turkmenistan is represented at the current international seminar of the Memory of the World program by Chinar Rustemova, Executive Secretary of the National Commission of Turkmenistan for UNESCO, and Maksat Meredov, Research Fellow at the Institute of Language, Literature, and National Manuscripts of the Academy of Sciences of Turkmenistan.
The UNESCO Memory of the World Programme training seminar will run until October 18. /// nCa, 15 October 2026 (in cooperation with MFA Turkmenistan)