Parisada Hindu Dharma Indonesia Parisada Hindu Dharma Indonesia Parisada Hindu Dharma Indonesia ("Indonesia Hinduism Society") is a major reform movement and organization that assisted in the revival of Hinduism in Indonesia. It was started in 1959 by Ida Bagus Mantra and led by Gedong Bagus Oka. It lobbied for the rights of Hindus in Bali after Hinduism became a state sponsored religion (along with Buddhism, Islam, Protestantism, and Catholicism) in 1959. From 1960–64 it was known as "Parisada Hindu Dharma Bali". In 1964 however it began to stress a religious rather than regional character and changed its name to "Parisada Hindu Dharma Indonesia" It
National Museum of Indonesia the old wing or Gedung Gajah is under major renovation, while the Gedung C is under construction. The museum has a collection of 61,600 prehistoric and anthropological artifacts, and 5,000 archeological artifacts from all over Indonesia and Asia. The museum collections is among the richest, the most complete, and the best of its kind in Indonesia and one of the finest in Southeast Asia. The museum has comprehensive collections of stone statues of classical Hindu-Buddhist period of ancient Java and Sumatra, a kaleidoscope of highly diverse collection of Indonesian ethnography artifacts, as well as quite extensive collections of Asian ceramics.