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Year Date Event 200 BCE "Dvipantara" or "Yawadvipa", a mystic Hindu kingdom is mentioned in India's earliest epic, the Ramayana; Sugriva, the chief of Rama's army dispatched his men to Yawadvipa in search of Sita then later used by the Indianized islander of Java Island and kingdom of Portugal to name the island during the age of discovery.
Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono won Indonesia's first direct presidential election in 2004, [147] and was reelected in 2009. [148] Joko Widodo, the PDI-P candidate, was elected president in 2014. Having previously served as the Governor of Jakarta, he is the first Indonesian president without a high-ranking political or military background. [149]
Banten: Founded in the early 16th century on the collapse of the Majapahit Empire by the son of the King-Priester of Cirebon, the Sultanate of Banten, in western Java. Bima: A state existing in the 17th century on Sumbawa Island. Bone (also spelled Boni): In the Bugi region of the southwestern Celebes (Sulawesi Selatan). The state was founded ...
The Kingdom of Siau was a kingdom located in the Siau Tagulandang Biaro Islands Regency, North Sulawesi, present-day Indonesia. It was established in 1510 by Lokombanua II or Lokongbanua II , who was also its first king. The kingdom lasted until the end of Ch. David's reign in 1956.
The discovery and study of numerous Tarumanagara inscriptions; especially those issued by King Purnawarman, had uncover that this kingdom was 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. [2]: 36
Early 20th-century historians who studied the inscriptions of Sumatra and the neighboring islands thought that the term "Srivijaya" referred to a king's name. In 1913, H. Kern was the first epigraphist that identified the name "Srivijaya" written in a 7th-century Kota Kapur inscription (discovered in 1892).
The hierarchy and structure relatively remain intact and unchanged throughout Majapahit history. [99] The king is the paramount ruler, as the chakravartin he is considered the universal ruler and believed to be the living god on earth. The king holds the highest political authority and legitimacy.
Spread of Islam: 800–1600: Peureulak Sultanate: 840–1292: Aru Kingdom: 1225–1613: Ternate Sultanate: 1257–1914: Samudera Pasai Sultanate: 1267–1521 ...