This status has made Indonesian language relatively open to accommodate influences from other Indonesian ethnics ' languages, most notably Javanese as the majority ethnic group in Indonesia, and Dutch as the previous colonizer.

Even though the vast majority of the victims were Cambodian, some foreigners, including 488 Vietnamese, 31 Thai, 1 Laotian, 1 Arab, 1 British, 4 French, 2 Americans, 1 New Zealander, 2 Australians, 1 Javanese, many Indians and Pakistanis were also imprisoned.

Today the majority of the Javanese people identify themselves as Muslims.

Indonesia's Javanese majority ethnicity has many honorifics.

Coloureds with Javanese or other Indonesian ancestry may often be regarded as Cape Malay and are primarily Muslims, while the majority of Coloureds are Christian ( generally Protestant ) or agnostic.

The majority of the population are Islamic, mainly of Javanese and Malay origin.

Although the majority of Javanese now identify as Muslim, these art forms still survive.

The majority of her letters protest the tendency of Javanese Culture to impose obstacles for the development of women.

The Javanese people of Indonesia called this constellation Gubug pèncèng (" raking hut ") or lumbung (" the granary "), because the shape of the constellation was like a raking hut.

In Indonesia, a nation with a huge variety of cultures and religions, many greetings are expressed, from the highly formalised of the highly stratified and hierarchical Javanese to the more egalitarian and practical of outer islands.

The Javanese people of Indonesia have a five-day week known as the Pasaran cycle.

Indonesia adopts a more stylistic approach to the Garuda's depiction as its national symbol, where it depicts a Javanese eagle ( being much larger than a kite ).

Meanwhile, with competition in the new joint Chinese and South Indian naval powers, Song and Chola, the thalassocracies of Indonesia were in rapid decline, though the Portuguese still encountered Javanese sailors in Madagascar in the.

Javanese people | Javanese rambutan seller in Semarang, Indonesia.

It has three main languages, though Javanese is dominant, and it is the native language of about 60 million people in Indonesia, most of whom live on Java.

Approximately 45 % of the population of Indonesia is ethnically Javanese., Sundanese make a large portion of Java's population as well.

It is widely used in Javanese cuisine in Indonesia.

The national government legislated to apply the Javanese desa village system throughout Indonesia, and in 1983 the traditional Minangkabau nagari village units were split into smaller jorong units, thereby destroying the traditional village social and cultural institutions.

Javanese culture | Javanese court batik, in typical reddish-brown colour, from Indonesia.

In the Indonesian region, toplessness was the norm among the Dayak people, Javanese, and the Balinese people of Indonesia before the introduction of Islam and contact with Western cultures.

In Indonesia and Malaysia, tamarind is known as the asam ( or asem ) Jawa ( means Javanese asam ), which in the Indonesian and Malay languages, translates as Javanese sour ( though the literature may also refer to it as sambaya ).

The Javanese dish gurame and more so ikan asem, also known as ikan asam ( sweet and sour fish, commonly a carp or river fish ) is served throughout Indonesia, Malaysia and Singapore ; some dishes in Manado, Sulawesi and Maluku cuisines use tamarind.

In Indonesia, Malaysia and the Philippines and Javanese traditional medicine, asem leaves are used as a herbal infusion for malarial fever, the fruit juice as an antiseptic, and for scurvy and even cough cure.

This proposal was readily accepted, and Christiaan Eijkman was appointed its first Director, at the same time being made Director of the " Dokter Djawa School " ( Javanese Medical School ) which later become University of Indonesia.

Sambals are popular in Indonesia, Malaysia, Singapore, the southern Philippines, and Sri Lanka, as well as in the Netherlands and in Suriname, through Javanese influence.

The Koran has also been translated to Aceh, Bugis, Gorontalo, Javanese, Sundanese, and Indonesian language of Indonesia, the most populous Muslim country in the world.

The architecture of Javanese mosques had a clear influence on the design of other mosques in Indonesia, Malaysia, Brunei, and the Philippines.

The term is a shortened version of " berlahar " which originated in the Javanese language of Indonesia.

Wars with the Javanese caused it to request assistance from China, and wars with Indian states are also suspected.

Albanian, Arabic, Assyrian ( VSO and VOS are also followed, depending on the person ), Berber, Bulgarian, Chinese, English, Estonian, Finnish, French, Italian, Ganda, Greek, Hausa, Hebrew, Javanese, Kashmiri, Khmer, Latvian, Macedonian, Polish, Portuguese, Quiche, Rotuman, Russian, Serbian, Spanish, Swahili, Thai, Vietnamese, Yoruba and Zulu are examples of languages that can follow an SVO pattern.

Although not overlapping with the large Javanese cities of Jakarta and Bandung, which are opposite Colombia, Java from Semarang east on the north coast, and south of Bandung on the south coast, correlates to Venezuela.

* Reports of the eruption of Krakatoa are recorded in the Javanese Book of Kings.

* Reports of the eruption of Krakatoa ( Java ), which possibly lead to several years of climate change ( see Climate changes of 535 – 536 ), are recorded in the Javanese Book of Kings.

Most Indonesians, aside from speaking the national language, are often fluent in another regional language ( examples include Javanese, Sundanese and Madurese ) which are commonly used at home and within the local community.

These differences are due mainly to the Dutch and Javanese influences on Indonesian.

As a general rule, desa and kelurahan are groupings of hamlets ( kampung in Indonesian, dusun in the Javanese language, banjar in Bali ).

The citizens are chiefly of African, East Indian, indigenous, Javanese, Chinese and Dutch descent.

For example, in the central Javanese gamelan, the largest gong is called gong ageng, ranges in size up to 1 meter in diameter, has the deepest pitch and is played least often ; the next smaller gong is the gong suwukan or siyem, has a slightly higher pitch and replaces the gong ageng in pieces where gong strokes are close together ; the kempul is smaller still, has a higher pitch, and is played more frequently.

Javanese rod puppets have a long history and are used to tell fables from Javanese history.

The main sources used by historians are: the Pararaton (' Book of Kings ') written in the Kawi language and Nagarakertagama in Old Javanese.

Nagarakertagama, is an old Javanese epic poem written during the Majapahit golden age under the reign of Hayam Wuruk after which some events are covered narratively.

There are also some inscriptions in Old Javanese and Chinese.

Coastal populations in Borneo are largely Muslim in belief, however these groups ( Tidung, Bulungan, Paser, Melanau, Kadayan, Bakumpai, Bisayah ) are generally considered to be Islamized Dayaks, native to Borneo, and heavily influenced by the Javanese Majapahit Kingdoms and Islamic Malay Sultanates.

However, in the Cat Fanciers ' Association, the Balinese is only accepted in the four traditional Siamese colors ; all other colors and patterns are considered Javanese.

The leaves are used in Indonesian cuisine ( especially Balinese cuisine and Javanese cuisine ), for foods such as sayur asam, and are used along with Indonesian bay leaf for chicken and fish.

Most of them are Javanese, Chinese, Arab, Indian, Minangkabau, or Sundanese.