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	Encyclopedia: Javanese language (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The Javanese language is the inferred language of the people in the central and eastern part of the island of Java, in Indonesia.
		It is a close linguistic relative of Malay, Sundanese, Madurese, Balinese, and to a lesser extent, of various Sumatran and Borneo languages, including Malagasy.
		Sundanese (Basa Sunda, literally language of Sunda) is the language of about 27,000,000 people from the western third of Java or about 15% of Indonesian population.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Javanese-language (5853 words)

	Sudanese Of Indonesia
		To be Sundanese is, ideally, to be a rice farmer.
		Sundanese villages contain between 1,000 and 7,000 people, and the houses lie clustered together.
		While many people may be recognized as relatives, the nuclear family remains the primary unit.
	www.peopleteams.org /sundanese (1205 words)

	People of South East Asia
		They are descendants of the Qiang people who migrated south from Qinghai lake and their language belongs to the Tibeto-Burman group of the Sino-Tibetan family.
		The Naxi are descendants of the ancient Qiang tribes that migrated south from the Qinghai plateau, settled in Sichuan and Yunnan and gave rise to the several Tibeto-Burman speaking peoples of the region.
		The 120 000 Zang people living in northwest Yunnan are Tibetans that trace their ancestry to the Qiang people, ancient nomadic tribes that lived on the Qinghai plateau as early as the Qin and Han dynasties.
	www.berclo.net /page00/00en-sea-people.html (10602 words)

	The Sundanese
		One of the experts in Sundanese customs, Prawirasuganda, mentions scores of taboos similar to those of the Badui which relate to all the important aspects of the life cycle ceremonies of the Sundanese people.
		According to the romantic tale Kidung Sunda, the Sundanese princess was supposed to be married to Ayam Wuruk, king of Majapahit.
		The people felt alienated from their own traditional nobility and Islam became their chief spokesman against the great imperialistic expansion which was taking place in the world through the economic thrusts of European countries.
	www.sunda.org /sundanese/sundanese.htm (3295 words)

	Sunda
		The Sundanese people are the second largest ethnic group in Indonesia, after the Javanese, who come from the provinces of Central and Eastern Java.
		Sundanese language and manners range from highly refined and formalized, to downright vulgar and ribald.
		The best way to learn a Sundanese performing art is to be born into a family (or at least a community) of performers.
	mysite.wanadoo-members.co.uk /gamelan/page1.html (442 words)

	The People - indonesiaphoto.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The approximately 65,000 Asmat people of the south-central alluvial swamps of Irian Jaya Province are descended from a Papuan racial stock.
		The Sundanese live principally in West Java, but their language is not intelligible to the Javanese.
		Although the Sundanese language, like Javanese, possesses elaborate speech levels, these forms of respect are infused with Islamic values, such as the traditional notion of hormat (respect--knowing and fulfilling one's proper position in society).
	www.indonesiaphoto.com /content/blogsection/6/41 (868 words)

	Duit, jodoh, dukun: Observations on cultural change among poor migrants to Bandung
		People move from one job to the other, sometimes working in a factory (“formal”), then turning to petty trading or a temporary job in construction (“informal”), and returning, when possible, to another factory job.
		People’s interpretations of the meaning of this slametan differ, but it is generally believed to support the spirit of the deceased and to guide it to its proper place in the nether world (where it awaits the Day of Judgement).
		Normally, people would attribute such a minor miracle to blessings bestowed by the prayer, but my Persisfriends offered another explanation: the floor of the mosque was covered with a carpet, while in his house the man walked and sat on the naked concrete floor.
	www.let.uu.nl /~martin.vanbruinessen/personal/publications/Duit_jodoh_dukun.htm (9562 words)

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		The Sundanese language, which is melodious and pleasant to hear consists of several dialects that gradually change into Javanese in the areas of Indramayu and Cirebon the east of the Priangan highlands.
		A Sundanese family may hold a ceremonial feast or Hajat at a certain stage in the agricultural cycle, in house building or any other new undertaking, or at one of numerous life-cycle events like pregnancy, birth, circumcision (sunat), marriage and the death.
		The majority of the people in Jawa Barat use the Sundanese language with its various dialects as a means of communication.
	jalanjalan.blogspot.com (20935 words)

	archipelaGoWest Java
		A lighthearted people who have a love for bright colors, their mournful "kecapi" music is a memory of beautiful legends.
		A typical Sundanese town in the highlands, Garut is surrounded by volcanic mountains and vast tea plantations.
		People visit these sulfur springs which have medicating effects to purify their skin.
	www.archipelago-emag.com /provinces/w-java/w-javatour.html (2408 words)

	Journal for Farming Systems Research-Extension
		At the lowest level is the individual plant or animal, its immediate microenvironment, and the people who tend and harvest it (Figure 1).
		Poor people, with permission, may also build their houses in homegardens, but in return have an obligation to do some work for the owners.
		Rural people in Indonesia respond to population growth by bringing new land under cultivation, by intensifying cultivation in order to obtain higher yields per unit area, and, more recently, by migrating to towns and cities.
	www.ciesin.org /docs/004-194/004-194.html (7018 words)

	...About Bandung: Parijs van Java
		The population were 2,056,915 people in the year 1990 and the population were 17,378 people/sq km.
		It occupies the western part of Java island, bordered by Central Java on the east, by Indian ocean on the south, separated from Sumatera island by Sunda strait on the west, and it shares border with Jakarta capital of Republic of Indonesia on the north; provides visitors with a true variety of experiences.
		Sundanese, the people of West Java ore noted for rich art and culture.
	zikri.indoglobal.com /bandung.html (2306 words)

	Department of Music: University of Pittsburgh (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The University of Pittsburgh gamelan ensemble plays the gamelan music of the Sundanese people, an ethnic group that inhabits roughly the western third of the island of Java.
		The participants in the gamelan program are encouraged to use Sundanese processes of learning as much as possible; oral transmission of musical parts is preferred over written notation and working together as an ensemble is more important than developing individual talent.
		During their residence in Pittsburgh, guest artists present lecture-demonstrations, public lectures, workshops, and performances that reach people from a variety of sectors in the University and the broader Pittsburgh community.
	www.pitt.edu /~musicdpt/performance/gamelan.html (662 words)

	Lolongkrang Information
		"Sunda" is the historical placename for the highlands of the western part of the island of Java in I ndonesia, the homeland of the Sundanese people.
		The Sundanese are patriotic Indonesians, but also look back to the medieval kingdom of Sunda and the Pajajaran Empire to define their identity.
		Burhan wanted to stress the connection of the group and the music it plays to his Sundanese homeland and to emphasize his belief that the group represents the inevitable flowering of Sundanese art which, despite the American heritage of many of its members, is nevertheless "khas Sunda" (truly Sundanese).
	www.pusakasunda.org /lolongkrang.html (692 words)

	Saudi Aramco World : Culinary Reconnaissance: Indonesia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		People in the interior eat freshwater fish raised in the padi fields or in tanks or family backyard ponds, or they fish in rivers, lakes and streams.
		Located in the Betawi heartland, Jakarta is the nation's capital, the republic's nerve center and the melting pot of the people, as well as the hub of the island of Java.
		Still on Java, the Sundanese people are centered around Bandung, their capital and Indonesia's third-largest city.
	www.saudiaramcoworld.com /issue/199601/culinary.reconnaissance-indonesia.htm (3651 words)

	People Group Information
		A Hindu people living within a Muslim majority, the Balinese of Indonesia blend art, life and belief in a way that has made their culture the subject of research and an object of tourism.
		Although better known as "gypsies," these people speak a language known as Romani, which is based on ancient Sanskrit.
		The Sundanese who live primarily in Indonesia, are very resistant to the gospel, due in part to the terrible treatment they received during the hundreds of years of Dutch colonization.
	www.thefellowship.info /Global%20Missions/UPG (406 words)

	The Elijah Challenge - Indonesia02
		I told the people that Jesus had done mighty miraculous healings to prove that He indeed was the Son of God, and that He still did them today.
		People began to come to the platform to testify of their healings.
		But with the powerful results from the limited outreach where about one-half of the Sundanese present received the Lord, Pastor Davy is emboldened to mobilize the whole Church in West Java to reach out to the Sunda people once again, the difference this time being the miraculous healings to confirm the gospel.
	www.theelijahchallenge.org /Indonesia02.htm (698 words)

	Bali Bombing Brings Unity to Indonesian Churches
		On the last evening, people brought samples of earth and sand for a symbolic prayer for the healing of their nation.
		People are living in expectancy of God and the mighty work He is doing among them,” said Jeff Hammond.
		In Bogor, the heartland of the Sundanese people in West Java, 300 intercessors gathered to hear Poate Mata, a guest speaker from Fiji, who called for unity, reconciliation and forgiveness so that their nation could be healed.
	www.worthynews.com /news-features-4/bali-bombings-brings-unity.html (602 words)

	What is Gamelan degung (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Degung developed in the small courts of Sunda and, to the present day, it is associated in the minds of the Sundanese with aristocratic rituals and traditions.
		Its present instrumentation, with goong (a large hanging gong) and suling degung (a 4-hole bamboo flute which plays a prominent role in degung) is attributed to Pa Idi and colleagues of his generation, who began to be active around 1920.
		Sundanese [gamelan] degung also has an ancestor in a rural ritual gamelan called Goong Renteng, as the instrumentation is similar.
	www.deepdownproductions.com /world/gamelandegung.shtml (756 words)

	Javanese (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Javanese language is the spoken language of people in centraland eastern part of island of Java, in Indonesia.
		According to Ethnologue, it is spoken by approximately 75,500,000 people.
		During this era Javanese culture spread westwards and gained ground in areas of the Sundanese people with the conquests of Mataram.
	www.therfcc.org /javanese-53005.html (3464 words)

	Malay People (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		In August the bishops issued a document on "the legal implications of conversion to Islam," warning their people about the consequences of accepting the Muslim...
		The Malays are the dominant race which live in Malaysia, Indonesia, Brunei and the Philippines which, together with Singapore, make up what is called the Malay archipelago.
		The Malays are traditionally classified as a member of the Mongoloid race, along with other Asiatic peoples, including Chinese, Mongols, Japanese, Koreans, Thaiss, Vietnamese and Burmese.
	www.wikiverse.org /malay-people (562 words)

	The Unreached Peoples Prayer Profiles (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The Sundanese are one of the largest groups of people yet unreached for Christ.
		Though not much is known about the kinship system of the Sundanese, we do know that the line of descent is through both of the parents.
		Perhaps this is the reason Sundanese children seem to have a spiritual connection with their mothers rather than with their fathers.
	www.ksafe.com /profiles/p_code/777.html (799 words)

	TerraNet: The Sundanese Lalab (Vegetables), Your Fate Today and Tomorrow (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The Sundanese people have been used to this habit of eating plants, such as lalab, for generations until today.
		There is even a proverb that says that Sundanese people will never be starved even if they were left in a jungle aslong as there are plants for them to eat.
		The Sundanese people may no longer be able to enjoy their fresh original lalabs.
	www.terranet.or.id /masukandetile.php?id=1365 (1364 words)

	INDONESIA TOURISM : WEST JAVA - HISTORY
		The region is primarily mountainous, with rich green valleys hugging lofty volcanic peaks, many of which surround the capital of the province, Bandung.
		The Sundanese people of this region, the Sundanese, are soft-spoken and colorful, with a rich and fascinating history.
		There are a number of resorts on the western and southern coasts which have modern hotels and are popular during the weekends, especially for people living in Jakarta.
	www.indonesia-tourism.com /west-java/history.html (296 words)

	Javanese language biography .ms (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Javanese language is the spoken language of people in central and eastern part of island of Java, in Indonesia.
		For example people on the street, where one does not want to be too informal or does not want to be too polite either, use it.
		However, this inscription is found on the western part of Java, home of the Sundanese people.
	javanese.biography.ms (3964 words)

	A people loved
		Beware, and be on your guard against every form of greed; for not even when one has an abundance does his life consist of his possessions.
		As I Think of these two Sundanese widows, and Fatima, and the others and how hey have reacted to thier poverty,I see hearts that are in such need of you.
		And for Seri, Let her know what you gave for her; and let her own work be transformed and empowered by the Spirit that can come to live within her.
	www.apeopleloved.com /sn_verse.html (414 words)

	Java
		West Java, home to the Sundanese people, has places of interests such as Bandung in the Sundanese heartland, the court city of Cirebon, the beach of Pangandaran, famous Krakatau and the wilds of Ujung Kulon National Park.
		In Central Java, temples and royal cities plot the rice and fall of the Hindu, Buddhist and Muslim kingdoms, from which the present-day court cities of Jogjakarta and Solo have evolved.
		Java is people and lost of them, but there are isolated places where you can find yourself out of sight and sound, such as the Dieng Plateau in the beautiful central highlands.
	www.geocities.com /cshangrila/Java.htm (374 words)

	Pitt Chronicle: Arts & Culture Spring 2005: Ramblin’, Gamelan Man (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		People come and go, children sleep, others mill about, and some performers are invited into the host’s home to eat.
		The puppets, whose rods are pierced through a watery banana tree log that serves as a stage, depict tales woven around gods, princes, warriors, and ogres, all to the enchanting, percussive sounds of the gamelan.
		Weintraub transcribed the entire narrative of the story in Sundanese (the language of the Sundanese people of West Java), then translated it into English and Indonesian, the first time anyone had attempted such a project.
	www.discover.pitt.edu /media/pcc050110/gamelan_man.html (1112 words)

	News 10 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		After all, the wayang golek is a beloved form of entertainment among the Sundanese, and while Indonesia has many puppet varieties, wayang golek is particular to West Java Province, of which Bandung is the capital.
		It is so embedded in Sundanese culture that on a special occasion like a wedding or "sunatan" (circumcision ceremony), guests expect to be regaled later by the antics of their favorite wayang golek characters.
		A wayang golek performance needs at least 20 people aside from the dalang, many of them musicians.
	www.mn-indo-soc.org /pr10.htm (810 words)

	tabulas.com: Lainie : Always in trouble, somehow
		I just gave him the honour of telling people back home that his holiday was ruined caused a stupid wannabe girl kicked his balls flat.
		It is upsetting to me that people who have recently noticed it accuses them of copy-catting Harry Potter (young boy, thick glasses, magic) especially since it's preceeded HP for years.
		People are talking to me, and I've phased out, sometimes speaking to myself in my mind, sometimes it's a tad freakier as I talk to myself outloud.
	www.tabulas.com /~lainie/2003/11 (12239 words)

	FloridaCBF.org - Missions > Essays by Pat
		One of the CBF teams is working with an unreached people group of 12,000,000.
		The Hill Tribe people in the northern regions of Thailand, near the borders with Laos and Burma, are among the poorest and most disadvantaged people I have encountered.
		Perhaps you have the same mental images as I of early American colonial women sitting around a quilting frame, or perhaps you have seen the Amish quilts which sell for big bucks to fascinated tourists seeking a link to the workmanship of a bygone era.
	www.floridacbf.org /fl/missions/patessays.htm (158 words)

	Bandung Hotels, Bandung Tourism, Bandung Travel, Hotels in Bandung, Bandung Holidays, tour to Bandung.
		The outgoing nature and strong belief in their culture of local Sundanese people makes it quite a change from the other cities in the country.
		Sundanese people are known for their outgoing attitude and strong belief in their culture.
		Bandung is a good place to watch cultural performances that are held round the year at major convention centres in the city.
	www.travelershub.com /destination_guide/south_east_asia/bandung.html (1224 words)

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