Soekmono (14 July 1922 – 9 July 1997) was an Indonesian

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and

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Throughout his career, he wrote about and researched

Borobudur Borobudur, also transcribed Barabudur (, ), is a 9th-century Mahayana Buddhist temple in Magelang Regency, near the city of Magelang and the town of Muntilan, in Central Java, Indonesia. Constructed of gray andesite-like stone, the temple consi ...

and the Javanese Candi. His main publication about Javanese Candi was a

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presented in 1974. He was the director of the National Archaeological Institute of the Republic Indonesia (Lembaga Purbakala dan Peninggalan Nasional Republic Indonesia). He was also the Project Manager of the Borobudur Restoration Project in the 1970s - the Proyek Pemugaran Candi Borobudur - when Borobudur was pulled down and rebuilt as part of a

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project to rebuild the monument. see a review of this work at Inside Indonesi

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Publications

* ''New light on some Borobudur problems'' (1969) * ''Ancient Indonesian art of the central and eastern Javanese periods'' (1971) * ''Pengantar sejarah kebudayaan Indonesia, Volume 1'' (1973) * ''Pengantar sejarah kebudayaan Indonesia, Volume 2'' (1973) * ''Pengantar sejarah kebudayaan Indonesia, Volume 3'' (1973) * ''Chandi Borobudur: a monument of mankind'' (1976) * ''Chandi Gumpung of Muara Jambi: a platform in stead icof a conventional chandi'' (1987) * ''Rekonstruksi sejarah Malayu kuno sesuai tuntutan arkeologi'' (1992) * ''The Javanese Candi: function and meaning'' (1995)

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Indonesian archaeologists 1922 births 1997 deaths 20th-century Indonesian historians 20th-century archaeologists {{Indonesia-historian-stub