Protection of Indigenous Peoples The Owner of Traditional Cultural Expressions in Indonesia

Abstract

Indo nesia has 33 provinces with different ethnics and cultures that the presence is highly valuable. 1 There fore, Indonesia is known as the rich country with great diversity of art legacies and traditional culture expressions. This diversity is possibly prominent due to various ethnics living in Indonesia with their high level of creativity to invent the art and traditional cultural expression. As a multicultural ethnicity, Indonesia is a set of different types of people from various characters and original culture. Indonesia has a lot of artistic and cultural expression that comes from indigenous peoples which is inherited and can be used by anyone and at any time (the common heritage of mankind).