Indonesia History Part I

The history of Indonesia can be said to return at least half a million years, because it is the date attribute of the hominid fossils found in 1809 by Eugene Dubois near the village of Trinil, East Java. The history of Indonesia has been deeply influenced by the sea Big waves of human migration to the islands took place as far back as 3000 BC, and continued piecemeal for the better part of 3000 years. It is not known, but where these people came from southern China or the Pacific Islands. Of course, they brought with them their language, Austronesian, but because they arrived in relatively small groups and established independent colonies around the coast, sometimes co-existing with the distant descendants of the man of Java, the language has rapidly diversified, so it is now something that 200 different languages, all dating from Austronesian, spoken in Indonesia.

But the national language of Indonesia is Bahasa Indonesia or many residents refer to it simply as "Bahasa". Bahasa Indonesia is used for formal conversations and understood throughout the country. At the same time that people were immigrating to Indonesia, the former colony to navigate to other parts of the world to act. The first traces of this are probably in the works of Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia, if seems to refer to exchanges between people of Indonesia and cultures in East Africa. It was at this time that Hinduism arrived in Indonesia, with the arrival of Indian traders. But the real effect of Hinduism in Indonesia was to come much later, as a deliberate missionary by the Brahmins, probably in the 5th century, with the chance of chance some of the basic ideas of Hinduism agree well with mountainworship existing Indonesian, and a strange hybrid of the two religions arose.

Indonesia's main trading partner at the time was southern China, Buddhist influences have also begun to play a role.

But the national language of Indonesia is Bahasa Indonesia or many residents refer to it simply as "Bahasa". Bahasa Indonesia is used for formal conversations and understood throughout the country. At the same time that people were immigrating to Indonesia, the former colony to navigate to other parts of the world to act. The first traces of this are probably in the works of Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia, if seems to refer to exchanges between people of Indonesia and cultures in East Africa. It was at this time that Hinduism arrived in Indonesia, with the arrival of Indian traders. But the real effect of Hinduism in Indonesia was to come much later, as a deliberate missionary by the Brahmins, probably in the 5th century, with the chance of chance some of the basic ideas of Hinduism agree well with mountainworship existing Indonesian, and a strange hybrid of the two religions arose.

Indonesia's main trading partner at the time was southern China, Buddhist influences have also begun to play a role.

Until, perhaps later than 7 centuries the people of Indonesia continued growing diversity of the relatively small city, trade, and sometimes fighting with each other. At that point, however, a great Buddhist kingdom of Sriwijaya, had consolidated its position and its center, probably just west of the modern Palembang, Sumatra. It seems that the rulers of Srivijaya was a considerable fortune as a result of a marketing network, and a large industrial area. 7 At the end of the century Sriwijaya moved to conquer all the small communities along the northern coast of Sumatra, and then took a lucrative monopoly on trade with China. Maharajah of the various treaties the first inhabitants of small islands in the area, so that commercial ships could pass unmolested. This kingdom survived until the10th century, it is convenient to deal with China is a single center.

At the same time, around the 8th century, Central Java sailendra governed by principles. The little kingdom was argriculturally rich, and were able to use generously erection of religious monuments. Sanctuary, the largest funeral and the structure of Borobudur was built more than 50 years since the end of the eighth century. The Shiva Temple of Prambanan was built around the same time that Borobudur was completed, but the manufacturer has not Sailendras. However, something seems to have happened in early 10 century, because there was a sudden cessation of production of monuments, inscriptions and other artifacts in Central Java.

In 1268, King came to the throne Kertanagara Javanese, and in some years, he expanded his empire to include South Sumatra Malayu ancient kingdom. He was overthrown and killed in 1292, but not before he stupidly sent emissary to Kublai Khan's house with his nose cut off and "no" tattoo on his forehead. When a punitive expedition Mongols arrived in Java, the usurper himself had been sent by Kertanagara son-in-law who used Kertarajasa wile to reject the threat from abroad, and created his new capital at Majaphit. Kertarajasa and his successors gradually established their rule over most of present-day Indonesia and parts of Malaysia.

However, the Chinese began trading with local production facilities elsewhere in the region, and Sriwijaya was little he could do to stop them. The kingdom may have dragged well into the 14th century, but until then, their power was one of simple.