Kyle Brungs
The Javanese from Southeast Asia
Blog Post 4
11/23/21
Settlements
“How the Mores of Indonesia's Biggest Ethnic Group Shape Its Politics.” The Economist, The Economist Newspaper, https://www.economist.com/asia/2019/05/23/how-the-mores-of-indonesias-biggest-ethnic-group-shape-its-politics.
The Javanese people of Southeast Asia are the largest ethnic group in the country of Indonesia on the island of Java. The westward movement of Javanese people has contributed to the culture being the primary culture in West Java and Banten. Theses people who move bring Gamelan music and different dances to the places they move to. Like the United States the Javanese culture occupies so many regions that different dances and objects have more than one word that describes them. The Javanese language the tenth most spoken language in the world. The oldest inscription goes back to 804 AD Another interesting Javanese fact is that they have leather puppets called Wayang Kulits. They use these puppets to tell stories to their young children. The Javanese are horticulturalists and emigrants, they have these gardens called "home gardens" where they grow plants and flowers. These "homegardens" are sometimes even located in their home. The Javanese have houses called jungle houses. These settlements are usually small and rectangular most often 4 by 5 meters. The house's frame is made of woods pillars. The walls are made of bamboo, and the roof is made of thatched coconut leaves which overlap to ensure no rain can get in the house through the roof. One aspect of Javanese homes that surprised me is there are no windows built into the house. There also is no floor in these houses, the floor is the ground that lies beneath the house. There is a little of variability between the houses though some people are considered upper class and have a more decorative and stronger style of roof. This style is called limasan. " Houses of administrators or of high ranking people have a concrete large open pavilion in the front of their house this is called a pedapa "stated by Jay R. Robert. The Javanese typically do not have a settlement pattern they start taking over an area when cousins and aunts and uncle decide to move out of the main village because it would become too crowded.
Ehraf
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Lockard, Craig A. “The Javanese as Emigrant: Observations on the Development of Javanese Settlements Overseas.” Indonesia, vol. 11, 1971, p. 41., https://doi.org/10.2307/3350743.
Adi, Yoga, and Yoga Adi. “30 Facts about Javanese Culture That You Should Know.” FactsofIndonesia.com, 24 Mar. 2020, https://factsofindonesia.com/facts-about-javanese-culture.
