Dutch Education and Culture Minister Gouke Moes (left) hands a letter to Indonesian Culture Minister Fadli Zon at the Naturalis Museum in Leiden on Sept 26, confirming the transfer of over 28,000 Dubois collection fossils to Indonesia. Photo: AFP
The Netherlands pledged on Friday to return to Indonesia the remains of "Java Man", the first-ever "Homo Erectus" unearthed by modern scientists in a landmark discovery for human evolution.
The Dutch plan to hand back some 28,000 fossils of the "Dubois Collection" looted by anatomist and geologist Eugene Dubois in 1891, when Indonesia was still a colony of the Netherlands.
