Sundanese Religion
SUNDANESE RELIGION. Although the Sundanese of West Java, Indonesia, consider themselves Muslims, many pre-Islamic ideas still permeate their religious life. A key point in understan...
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Candi of Java
Candi are archaeological treasures from past civilizations in Java. Many originally served as religious monuments, while a number of them also used to be related to the courts of various...
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Java
(2000 pop. 120 million). The island of Java is the political and economic center of Indonesia. In conjunction with the island of Madura, usually included in its statistics, Java has a territory o...
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Java
Java is a high-level programming language—a language designed for communication. Java was originally called OAK, and was developed by a team at Sun Microsystems headed by James Gosling. Jav...
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An earthquake sent a 6-foot-high tsunami crashing into beach resorts on Java island Monday, killing at least 86 people, leaving scores missing and sending thousands fleeing to higher grou...
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A ferry carrying hundreds of passengers sank in a storm off Indonesia's main island of Java and nearly all were still missing 12 hours later, officials said Saturday.The "Senopati" went down around...
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Rescue ships collected scores of bloated bodies Monday from seas close to where a ferry sank in the Java Sea, but search teams also spotted survivors on life rafts and dropped food and water to the...
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Starbucks has come a long way in making itself a household name in this nation of tea drinkers, creating a "coffee house" niche where none existed before.With the launch Thursday of its "frappucino...
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Jakarta (dpa) - A major earthquake registering 7.5 on the Richter
scale struck off the northern coast of Indonesia's Java Island early
Thursday, and was felt hundreds of kil...
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Jakarta (dpa) - Days of heavy downpours paralyzed land
communications in Indonesia's main island of Java as rescue workers
continued their efforts Sunday to unearth bodies f...
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