The Fadli Zon Library, founded in 2008, is a private library owned by Fadli Zon, an Indonesian cultural figure and politician. The library has a collection of more than 50,000 books, ancient manuscripts, postage stamps, kris, old newspapers, spears, swords, badiks from various kingdoms of the archipelago, coins, statues, paintings from various Indonesian master artists, long play records from Indonesian musicians or singers, cigarettes produced in Indonesia, old textiles or cloths from various regions, and glasses from several figures.[1]
Fadli Zon Library collects more than one hundred original ancient handwritten manuscripts using paper and palm leaf, Serat Cebolek, Centhini (1831), and Wulangreh are one of them. Pakubuwono IV's handwriting made on January 4, 1902 is some of the ancient fibers in the Fadli Zon Library collection.
Old newspapers
Fadli Zon Library has a collection of no less than 500 old newspaper publications. Some of them are the 1862 edition of the Selompret Melajoe newspaper, the 1875 edition of the Madoera-Shuu newspaper, the Kediri-Shuu newspaper (1875), the Sinpo Chinese language newspaper (1922-1960), the Kengpo newspaper (1924-1957), and newspapers published from 1930 to 1960s.
Money and stamps
The Fadli Zon Library stamp collection is collected in 4 Davo Albums which display collections of Indonesianstamps since 1949. In Addition, the Fadli Zon Library also collects tens of thousands of stamps from the Dutchcolonial period and stamps from abroad. Meanwhile, the Fadli Zon Library's money collection consists of a collection of banknotes and coins numbering in the thousands.
There are no less than 750 paintings in the Fadli Zon Library collection which are displayed from the first floor to the third floor. Most of the paintings in the Fadli Zon Library collection are works by national painting maestros. Some of them are, View of Bali by Dullah, Ranah Minang by Wakidi, President Soekarno's Visit to Peking by Henk Nunjung.
Sculptures
Fadli Zon Library Sculpture Collection consists of around 300 statues by national sculpture maestros, such as Trubus, Hendra Gunawan, and Zaini. Apart from that, the Fadli Zon Library also collects traditional statues from tribes in the country.
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