THE ROLE OF UNESCO IN CONSERVING BOROBUDUR AS WORLD CULTURAL HERITAGE SITE IN 2011-2017

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Title: The Role of UNESCO in Conserving Borobudur as World Heritage Site in 2011-2017 Name: Maria Angriani UNESCO as one of the international organization that has concern in culture realizes heritage is one of valuable thing and should be protected. To perform their role, in 1972 UNESCO has established UNESCO convention concerning the protection of world cultural and world natural heritage. As a country that has lot of heritage, Indonesia also concern with the protection of its heritage. Indonesia is one of the countries that have ratified UNESCO convention concerning the protection of the world cultural and natural heritage. In 1991, Borobudur listed in UNESCO World Heritage lists. This research emphasizes the role of UNESCO in Borobudur in 2011 to 2017 that is referring to the role based on the convention 1972. As one of the oldest site in Indonesia, Borobudur has facing any problems that lead to the continuity of Borobudur either from its attention, natural disaster until mass tourism. Due to this problem, the outstanding universal values and status of Borobudur as world heritage site threatened to be lost. To prevent future damage, in 2011 until 2017 Ministry of Education and Culture of Indonesia work with UNESCO for International cooperation for the long-term conservation of Borobudur as World Heritage Site. Through this program is expected to preserve the temple in the future through well trained human resources in both preventive and recovery measures also increasing the awareness of local community and youth in the area around Borobudur. This research describes the role of UNESCO in conserving Borobudur as World Heritage site, focus of the study is from 2011 to 2017.