The items were taken in the late 19th century from what was then called the Dutch East Indies. Indonesia had been trying to get them back for decades. By Nina Siegal Reporting from Amsterdam The ...

he foreign ministers of the Netherlands and Indonesia hailed the plan to return thousands of artifacts unearthed during the Dutch colonial era, including the remains of the Homo erectus known as “Java ...

Java Man, the first fossil evidence of Homo erectus, has returned to Indonesia after over a century in the Netherlands. This ...

A ceremony at Leiden’s Naturalis Biodiversity Center on Friday finalized an accord between Dutch Education, Culture and Science Minister Gouke Moes and Indonesian Culture Minister Fadli Zon to return ...