Following advice from the Colonial Collections Committee, the Netherlands signed an agreement to return two objects from the Wereldmuseum collection to Indonesia. One was seized by Dutch forces while looting the Acehnese resistance leader Teuku Umar’s home, linking restitution directly to colonial military violence.
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The 2026 Indonesian restitution decision included a Qur’an taken from Teuku Umar’s home.
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The government described it as seized during looting by Dutch forces.