The son of a Javanese primary school teacher, an aristocrat named Raden Soekemi Sosrodihardjo and his Balinese wife from the Brahman caste named Ida Ayu Nyoman Rai from Buleleng regency, Sukarno was born at Jl.

If it followed Javanese language, the monument should have been named ' BudurBoro '.

Some scholars identified Bathala to the Indonesian Batak chief god named “ Batara Guru ” son of the blue hen goddess “ Manuk Patiaraja ” ( Patiaraja means hen ). In Javanese mythology Shiva known as Bathara Guru.

Tun Sri Lanang's book, the Sejarah Melayu, tells that it was made by a Javanese empu and first used by the champion of Majapahit, a pendekar named Taming Sari.

It is possible that the Mataram army troop named this southern area Tanah Abang because the soil ( tanah ) of the place was reddish ( abang is red in Javanese ), thus tanah abang means " red soil " in Javanese.

The keris was a prize from the Javanese kingdom of Majapahit to Hang Tuah after he fought and killed their supposedly invincible warrior named Taming Sari.

According to the legend, Javanese sailors wandering in the mist in 1350 named the island because they saw a glimpse of light around it ; previously the island bore the Arabic name of Majidi.

The latex, present in the bark and foliage, contains a cardiac glycoside named antiarin, which is used as an arrow poison called upas: Javanese for poison, but, commonly to the poetic ( non literal ) quality of many Javanese words has a duality of meanings-watchman, messenger and courier.

According to ancient Chinese, Indian and Javanese manuscripts, western coastal cities of Borneo had become trading ports, part of their trade routes, since the first millennium.

In the 14th century, almost all coastal parts of Borneo were under the control of Majapahit kingdom as is written in the Javanese Nagarakretagama document ( ca.

The name of a trading port city in Borneo is Tanjungpura in the Nagarakretagama ; the same name written in another Javanese Pararaton document ( ca.

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.

In 2001 the Indonesian government ended the transmigration of Javanese settlement of Indonesian Borneo that began under Dutch rule in 1905.

While the core culture of the migration is most closely related with Ma ' anyan of Borneo, a portions of Malagasy language is derived from loanwords from Javanese language.

Javanese merchants also converted coastal cities in Borneo to Islam.

In the king's eleventh year ( 1244 / 5 ) Lanka was invaded by Chandrabhanu, a Javanese ( Javaka ) from Tambralinga, with a host armed with blow-pipes and poisoned arrows: he may have been a sea-robber, and though now repulsed descended on the Island later on.

Javanese Sacred Places are locations on the Island of Java, Indonesia that have significance from either village level through to national level as sacred, and in most cases deserve visitation -- usually within the context of ziarah regardless of the ethnicity or religion of the visitor.

Examples include Tibetan singing bowls, temple bells of many sizes and shapes, gongs, Javanese gamelan and other bronze musical instruments.

He reported the Bandanese as being part of an Indonesia-wide trading network and the only native Malukan long-range traders taking cargo to Malacca, although shipments from Banda were also being made by Javanese traders.

The Javanese, Arab and Indian, and Portuguese traders for example brought indispensable items along steel knives, copper, medicines and prized Chinese porcelain.

The population of the Banda Islands prior to Dutch conquest is generally estimated to have been around 13, 000-15, 000 people, some of whom were Malay and Javanese traders, as well as Chinese and Arabs.

During this time, Shambhuvarman son of Pushkaraksha controlled most of water Chenla until the 8th century which the Malayans and Javanese dominated over many Khmer principalities.

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.

The Javanese Majapahit Empire was arguably able to encompass much of the modern day ASEAN due to its unique mastery of bronze smithing and use of a central arsenal fed by a large number of cottage industries within the immediate region.

Documentary and archeological evidence indicate that Arab or Indian traders introduced gunpowder, gonnes, muskets, blunderbusses, and cannon to the Javanese, Acehnese, and Batak via long established commercial trade routes around the early to mid 14th century CE.

Circa 1540 CE the Javanese, always alert for new weapons found the newly arrived Portuguese weaponry superior to that of the locally made variants.

Javanese bronze breech-loaded swivel-guns, known as meriam, or erroneously as lantaka, was used widely by the Majapahit navy as well as by pirates and rival lords.

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

The origins of this word lie in the Old Javanese and thus ultimately in the Sanskrit language.

In 1527, Fatahillah, a Javanese general from Demak attacked and conquered Sunda Kelapa, driving out the Portuguese.

As with Hinduism and Buddhism before it, the new religion and its accompanying foreign influences were absorbed and reinterpreted, with mosques given a unique Indonesian / Javanese interpretation.

At the time, Javanese mosques took many design cues from Hindu, Buddhist, and even Chinese architectural influences.

Javanese styles in turn influenced the architectural styles of mosques among Indonesia's Austronesian neighbors: Malaysia, Brunei and the southern Philippines.

For thousands of years, Palauans have had a well established matrilineal society, believed to have descended from Javanese precedents.

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.

Javanese, Batak and other ethnicities actively or formerly involved in the military will salute a Government employed superior, followed by a deep from the waist or short bow of the head and a passing, loose handshake.

Traditionally, Javanese Sungkem: clasp both hands palm together, thumb aligned with nose, head and face turned downwards and bow deeply, bending from the knees.

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.

The Indians named Borneo Suvarnabhumi ( the land of gold ) and also Karpuradvipa ( Camphor Island ).

NCDU 2, under LTjg Frank Kaine, after whom the Naval Special Warfare Command building is named, and NCDU 3 under LTjg Lloyd Anderson, formed the nucleus of six NCDUs that served with the Seventh Amphibious Force tasked with clearing boat channels after the landings from Biak to Borneo.

Also called the Oriental Realm by biogeographers, Indomalaya extends from Afghanistan through the Indian subcontinent and Southeast Asia to lowland southern China, and through Indonesia as far as Java, Bali, and Borneo, east of which lies the Wallace line, the ecozone boundary named after Alfred Russel Wallace which separates Indomalaya from Australasia.

This fishing village named Api-Api ( see Original names below ) was chosen due to its proximity to North Borneo Railway and the natural port that was up to 24 feet deep and protected from the wind.

By the 12th century, the kingdom included parts of Sumatra, the Malay Peninsula, Western Java, Sulawesi, the Moluccas, Borneo and the Philippines, most notably the Sulu Archipelago and the Visayas islands ( and indeed the latter island group, as well as its population, is named after the empire ).

Somerset MRT Station was named in reference to an English playwright, novelist and short story writer, William Somerset Maugham, who wrote a series of stories on Malaya, Borneo and Singapore while staying at Raffles Hotel during his stay in Singapore in the 1930s

It was discovered in 1866 in Borneo, Malaysia and named for Laurie, the wife of Charles A. Joy, an American chemist.

Having long-pursued a cryptic trail from native legend and archaeological artifacts, Blackthorne Shore arrives at a gruesome temple hidden in the wilds of Borneo, within which a lightning-spitting Inhumanoid named Sslither has been magically imprisoned for millennia.

Cornell was fascinated by the star of East of Borneo, an actress named Rose Hobart, and named his short film after her.

Beaufort which was named after former British Governor L. P. Beaufort is a town and a district located in Interior Division of Sabah in east Malaysia on the island of Borneo.