Tarumanagara or Taruma Kingdom or just Taruma was an early Sundanese Indianised kingdom, located in western Java, whose 5th-century ruler, Purnawarman, produced the earliest known inscriptions in Java
Citarum river in West Java, etymologically connected to Taruma kingdom.
Statue of Kali from Tanjung Priok, North Jakarta
Inscription from the era of Purnawarman, undated, founded in Tugu sub-district of Jakarta.
Fragment of Hindu god Vishnu discovered in Batujaya archaeological site, West Java.
The history of Indonesia has been shaped by its geographic position, natural resources, a series of human migrations and contacts, wars and conquests, as well as by trade, economics and politics. Indo
Tarumanagara
…indeed the earliest Hindu polity in western Indonesia. Together with Kutai and Kalingga, Tarumanagara is remembered as a pioneer states that started the historical period of Indonesia. Tarumanagara is especially important as the historical identity for the city of Bekasi and its surrounding area, since local historians believe that…
As early as the 1st century CE Indonesian vessels made trade voyages as far as Africa. Picture: a ship carved on Borobudur, c. 800 CE.
The replica of Java Man skull, originally discovered in Sangiran, Central Java
The syntype fossils of Java Man (H. e. erectus), at Naturalis, Leiden
A megalithic statue in the Bada Valley, Lore Lindu National Park, Central Sulawesi. Estimated to be up to 5,000 years old, these stone figures are part of a little-understood prehistoric culture. Dozens of megaliths with human-like and abstract forms are found throughout the region.