Jakarta, May 9 -- The "Tambo Tuanku Imam Bonjol" manuscript has been officially inducted in the Memory of the World (MoW) for Asia and the Pacific list, the National Library said in a statement released here on Thursday.

Head of the Indonesian National Archives (ANRI), Imam Gunarto, received the certificate stating that the manuscript has been included in the Asia and the Pacific MoW list from the Memory of the World Regional Committee for Asia and the Pacific (MOWCAP) leader Kwibae Kim.

The handover was carried out in Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia, on Wednesday (May 8, 2024).

"The Tambo Tuanku Imam Bonjol manuscript is one of the authentic records written by a native about the Paderi War and West Sumatra in the 19th century," a librarian from...