Java

Java is the name of an island in Indonesia. This island is the most populated island, the island's densely populated, and the thirteenth largest island in the world. Size 138,793.6 km2 island with a population of around 124 million inhabitants (density of 979 inhabitants per km2). Java Island residents are mostly Javanese and Sundanese. Sundanese tribe residing mainly in the western side of Java Island, while Javanese living in the middle and east. In west Java, many are also pockets of tribal communities or tribes of the Java language Java. While in the middle of Java Island were also found pockets of tribal communities or tribes of the Sunda Sundanese language, especially in Brebes and Cilacap district. In addition there is also the Madurese, and tribes in East Java and Bali Betawi tribes in the west Java city of Jakarta and surrounding areas.

Ethnic groups mostly use Java in the Java language spoken daily. In a survey conducted by Tempo magazine in the early 1990s, approximately only 12% Java people who use the Indonesian language as their daily, approximately 18% using Java language and Indonesia are mixed, and the rest just use the Java language course .

Java language has rules and vocabulary differences in intonation based on the relationship between speaker and listener, known as the upload-ungguh. This linguistic aspect has a strong social influence in Javanese culture, and making people aware of Java are usually very social status in society.

Most Javanese are nominally embraced Islam. But the Protestant and Catholic religions too much. They are also found in rural areas. Buddhists and Hindus also were also found among the Java community. There is also a tribal religious beliefs as a religion of Java, called Javanist. This belief is mainly based on animistic beliefs with the Hindu-Buddhist influence is strong. Java community famous for its nature of syncretism of belief. All foreign culture is absorbed and interpreted according to the values of Java so that the trust somebody sometimes become blurred.

The majority of the Javanese people work as farmers, but in cities they are many who become civil servants and military. Java man was not prominent in business and industry. Java is also a lot of people who work abroad, as unskilled laborers and domestic servants.

Javanese society is also famous for the distribution of social groups. America's leading anthropologists, Clifford Geertz, in the 1960s Javanese society is divided into three groups: the students, abangan and aristocracy. According to the students is a devout follower of Islam, abangan are adherents of Islam in nominal or adherents Javanist, while the Priyayi is the nobility. But today's opinion because he opposed Geertz much mixing of social classes with the class of trust. Social categorization is also difficult to apply in classifying people out, let people of other Indonesian and non-indigenous ethnic groups such as people of Arab descent, Tionghoa, and India.

Javanese culture is famous for his art is mainly influenced by the Hindu-Buddhist religion, which is staging a puppet. Repertory puppet story or play is largely based on the epic Ramayana and the Mahabharata. In addition to Indian influence, the influence of Islam and the Western World there. Batik art and kris are two forms of expressions of Javanese society. Gamelan music, which is also found in Bali plays an important role in cultural life and traditions of Java.