THE JAVANESE

Done by:
Ziham Zawawi Mazlan
Zatul `Iffah Hairudin
 The early of Javanese
• Early Javanese come from Austronesia
community from Yunan.
• They comes trough Semenanjung Malaysia and
separate all over Nusantara.
• So, Javanese and Malays are come from the
same ancestors.
• In early 1990s, around 70million Javanese that
majority lives in East Java and Central Java and
the rest lived in Sumatra, Kalimantan, Sulawesi
and other island.
• They live in their own villages or kampong
typically situated on the edge of rice fields,
surrounding a mosque or along the road.
• Javanese are an ethnic group native to the
Indonesia island of Java, as 2004 around
90million live there
• But due the migration within Indonesia
there are now high population Javanese
people almost all the Indonesia provinces.
 The physical surrounding
• Java, includes Sumatra to the northwest
and Bali to the east.
• Borneo to the north and Christmas Island
to the south
• It is the world’s 13th largest island
• Java entirely of volcanic origin (no fewer
than 38 mountains.
• The mountains and highlands help to split
the interior into a series of relatively
isolated regions suitable for wet-rice
cultivation.
• The island is administratively divided into 4
provinces (Banten, West Java, Central
Java and East Java),1 special region
(Yogyakarta) and one capital (Jakarta)
 The economy system
• Javanese spirit of gotong-royong (mutual
aid) in economics.
• In village, economics associations take the
form of village cooperatives which
distribute rice seeds, rear goats or
culcative fish to provide additional food.
• They also jointly other agriculture
equipment called “lumbung pantun” which
can be borrowed on a mutual basis.
• They also tends to see economics life as a
matter of fate which determines that
people work hard simply to earn their daily
food.
• They also believe concept “ihtiyar”.
• The economics life influences the political
and religious life.
• The industrializations process creates a
‘’technocratic state”.
 The Social System
• There are 90 millions Javanese in
Indonesia, 1 million in Malaysia,
500,000 in Netherlands and many more.
• Javanese is a race, not a religion so
their social system are based on their
religion.
• Early Javanese has social hierarchy
based on Hindus hierarchy but when
Islam spreading to Java Island, the
social system was changed to Islamic
Social System.
• Javanese is a loyal community, the always obey
they Sultan’s command but nowadays, there is
no kingdom exist in Indonesia. The monarchy
was replaced by Democracy System.
• Village neighborhood social system is the most
important social system in Javanese villagers
society. They were differentiated into smaller
units knows as ‘Rukun Kampung’ or ‘Rukun
Tetangga’.
• In Rukun Tetangga the villagers doing a lot of
things together such as marriage, ‘Yasinan’,
‘Lagan’ and so much more.
The Costume and Culture
Music:-
Gamelan ~ consists a bronze gongs, gong-chimes,
mettallophones, drums, one or more flute, bowed
and plucked string instruments, and sometimes
singers.

Dance/Performances:-
The Ramayana Ballet
The Barong & Rangda
The Legong
The Kecak
The Wayang Kulit
 Language
• Has 6 vowel and 20 consonant
phonemes.
• The Javanese language has nine levels
range from low to high, reflecting
status, age and familiarity between
speakers.
e.g. mangan eat
budek deaf
melayu run
dholan strolling
 Festive Seasons

Religion festive Culture festive Modern festive

• Lebaran •The Keraton – •Independence day

have daytime
1 Syawal (after 16 August
procession and
Ramadan)
night procession. •New Year day
• Aidul Adh
1 Jan