JAKARTA, Nov. 5 (Xinhua) -- Indonesia has listed 1,086 intangible heritages to be selectively proposed to the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) for World Heritage inscriptions, an official at the Indonesian Education and Culture Ministry said on Tuesday.
The ministry would form a team particularly tasked to select the intangible heritages considered potential for UNESCO World Heritages inscription, head of the ministry's Intangible Heritages Directorate Binsar Simanullang said.
Indonesia is planning to submit the selected potential intangible heritages to UNESCO once in every two years in the future, he added.
"Indonesia already had nine intangible heritages inscribed as UNESCO World Heritages. One of them is batik that relates to traditional textile production," Simanullang said after the opening session of the two-day 7th ASEAN Traditional Textile Symposium in Yogyakarta.
To celebrate the inscription of batik by UNESCO in 2009, the Indonesian government has designated Oct. 2 as the National Batik Day.
Simanullang said Indonesia is expecting the results from its proposal on traditional martial arts of pencak silat in the 2019 UNESCO meeting of Committee for the Safeguarding of the Intangible Cultural Heritage in Colombia slated for December.
After pencak silat, Indonesia has scheduled to submit proposals on pantun and gamelan to UNESCO, he added.
Pantun is Indonesia's oral form of expression through a four-line rhyming poetry, commonly used in traditional events in the Malay community in the country.
Meanwhile, gamelan is traditional ensemble music of Javanese, Balinese and Sundanese in Indonesia.
