History – Sriwijaya was maritime kingdom which prioritized income from maritime trade. What made Sriwijaya a maritime kingdom was because the region of Palembang was not good for agriculture. Trade would be less profitable to Sriwijaya if there were competitors which colud decrease the importance of Sriwijaya in trade. The competitors were Melayu (Malay) and […]
History – Buddhism had developed in Sriwijaya since the 7th century. In a fragment of Bukit Siguntang inscription, there is a word “Siksa Prajna” which is actually made up of two words ‘siksa’ and ‘prajna’ that relate to the basic principle of Mahayana Buddhism and Hinayana Buddhism. The Buddhism prefessed in Sriwijaya was Hinayana Buddhism. Because […]
History – The kings who succeded Balaputra were probably not wise enough in carrying out the country’s foreign policy, so it inflicted a loss on the neighbouring eountries. As a result, the countries which were harmed by Sriwijaya opposed Sriwijaya’s control over the lines of international trade and navigation. In the beginning of the 12th […]
History – In the 5th century, Kaling Kingdom was founded in Central Java, it was influenced by Hindu culture. So in Central Java there was also a residential area of Indians who then mixed with native Indonesians. Their culture influenced the native people in the region. The kingdom kept developing and in the 7th century […]
History – Inscription related to Tarumanegara 1. Ciareteun inscription which was discovered on the side of river Ciareteun, a tributary of the river Cisadane at Ciampea, Bogor. The inscription was written on a large stone using Pallava scripts and Sanskrit language. What interested scientists was the existence of a painting and footprints carved on the scripts. […]
History – Inscription related to Tarumanegara 1. Ciareteun inscription which was discovered on the side of river Ciareteun, a tributary of the river Cisadane at Ciampea, Bogor. The inscription was written on a large stone using Pallava scripts and Sanskrit language. What interested scientists was the existence of a painting and footprints carved on the scripts. […]
History – In early 5th century AD, the navigation ad trade relations between India and China that passed through Makasar and Kalimantan Straits had not been as busy as avigation through Malacca Strait and west Indonesia. News from China about west Indonesia had been found a lot since the 5th century AD, but little was known […]
History – Hindu influence was estimated to start in the beginning of the 6th century AD. The milestone was taken from the interpretation of seven yupas of the remains of Kutai Kingdom in East Kalimantan and seven inscriptions from Tarimanegara Kingdom in West Java. Because the yupas and inscriptions used Pallava scripts, it was assumed that […]
History – Regions which were influenced by Buddhist elements in Nusantara – Based on the discovery of a bronze Buddha statue at Sempaga South Sulawesi, it is estimated that Buddhism developed in Nusantara earlier them Hinduism. Vieved from the shape, the statue at Sempaga was the same in style as the statue made in Amarawati, India. Statues […]
History – The people of Nusantara had accepted new cultures from India. However, they did not abandon the culture and traditions they had for hundreds of years. They did not completely absorb the influences of Hindu-Buddhis cultures because. Nusantara people had local genius, that is the ability of a society to screen and process incoming foreign cultures […]
