(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 of 132,608 square kilometers. Java is divided into three...

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 Javanese kingdoms. There are hundreds of candi, large and small,...

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. Java was initially intended for hand-held devices. In 1995,...

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 understanding Sundanese relations to the supernatural is the relationship...

This article is about the Java island. For the programming language, see Java (programming language). For other uses, see Java (disambiguation). Java (Indonesian, Javanese, and Sundanese: Jawa) is an island of Indonesia and the site of its...

Nuclear medicine has been at the forefront of digital radiology for many years, in large part because of the digital nature of y cameras and the relatively small image file sizes. Teleradiology and picture archiving and communication systems (PACS) are maturing, being carried along...

Muslim charities rush to help earthquake devastated Java. Indonesia's earthquake survivors will need a six-month relief operation costing more than $100 million, UN officials have estimated. They say that nearly half of that money should go toward housing. The deadly earthquake that...

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 ground, officials, witnesses and media reports said. Regional bulletins that...

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 midnight Friday en route to Sumarang on central Java from the port of...