Wiesbaden museum returns human remains from Dutch colonial era to Indonesia

The Kunst- und naturhistorische Museum Wiesbaden in Germany handed over a human skull to an Indonesian delegation.

The remains belonged to the collection of Ernst Albert Fritze, a military doctor from Hesse who worked for the Dutch colonial administration nearly two centuries ago. This action follows a previous move by the museum in 2023, when it returned a Maori ancestor skull to a New Zealand delegation. Both sets of remains were part of Fritze's historical collection.