Zakharov Anton

Mysterious Indonesian National Police Awards

ЮГО-ВОСТОЧНАЯ АЗИЯ: АКТУАЛЬНЫЕ ПРОБЛЕМЫ РАЗВИТИЯ, 2019, №1(42), 225-231

 
Annotation: Indonesian orders, decorations and medals are relatively little known among the collectors and scholars. The highest order of Indonesia is the Star of the Republic of Indonesia (Bintang Republik Indonesia). It was awarded to many politicians and famous people, including the first cosmonaut Jury Gagarin and his teammates German Titov, Andrian Nikolayev, Valentina Tereshkova and Valery Bykovsky. But Indonesian medals are almost unknown outside Indonesia. They occasionally appear in online medal shops, such as https://www.emedals.com/ and http://www.liverpoolmedals.com/, and in the huge auction hubs like https://www.ebay.com/. Despite the fact that the medals of Indonesia are of little and unstable interest among the collectors, the market sometimes gives strange examples of these unique items.

Keywords: awards, medals, decorations, Indonesia, National Police, antiquarian market, forgeries