Cultural heritage and cultural participation as vehicles for economic inclusion in Indonesia and Germany

Culture, in all its multiple forms, is essential to address global challenges, through its role in economic growth, in human development, as a storehouse of environmental knowledge, and as a symbolic force to bring stability and meaning to communities. Culturally embedded livelihood practices help retain local knowledge and generate employment while enabling local economic development. Aditionally, culture is a powerful global economic engine generating jobs and income with a value of US$1.3 trillion in 2005. Global cultural industries account for more than 7% of global GDP