Jakarta, Oct. 28 -- Minister of Culture Fadli Zon highlighted Indonesia's cultural and historical diversity as a key part of the world's shared civilizational heritage during the 2025 UISPP Inter-Regional Conference.

"Indonesia is home to more than 1,340 ethnic groups across 17,000 islands and guardian to 718 languages - about 10 percent of the world's linguistic heritage," Zon said in a statement received in Jakarta on Tuesday.

He said Indonesia's diversity represents interconnected civilizations built on systems of knowledge, rituals, oral traditions, and maritime heritage that trace human life across millennia.

At the conference, Zon announced Indonesia's plan to repatriate the Pithecanthropus erectus fossil, discovered by Dutch pal...