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The Netherlands' Anti-Smoking Campaign
The Netherlands is to return almost 500 artworks to Sri Lanka and Indonesia after a report recommended restoring tens of thousands of objects that were taken during the colonial era. The items going back to Indonesia include four stone statues from the former Javanese Hindu kingdom of Sincaratsari, a Keris dagger from the Klunkung kingdom and 132 objects of modern art from Bali which are known as a Peter Maha collection. A handover ceremony has already been planned for the PeterMaha collection at the National Museum of Ethnology in Leiden on Monday, July 10th. And how about Sri Lanka? Yes they're getting six objects which include an ornate bronze cast gun known