Jakarta, Sept. 27 -- Indonesian Minister of Culture Fadli Zon has received documents for the return of the fossil collection discovered by paleoanthropologist Eugene Dubois from the Dutch government at the Naturalis Museum in Leiden, the Netherlands.

Based on a press release on the Naturalis Museum's official website, the Dubois Collection includes approximately 28,000 fossils found on the islands of Java and Sumatra, including Homo erectus fossils discovered between 1891 and 1892 in the Trinil area, now part of Ngawi District, East Java Province.

According to a government press release on Saturday, the return of the Dubois fossil collection to Indonesia coincided with President Prabowo Subianto's working visit to the Netherlands.

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