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Mostly living in east and central Java, Java
Tribe is the biggest one in the nation, which
consist of 75 percent of the Island's 115 million
people. The tribe is famous for building the
giant ancient kingdom, Majapahit, and the first
president Soekarno and the former president Soeharto
are from the Java tribe.
Java Tribe is well known for being courteous
and sincere, henceforce, the people do not lose
smile from the face and kindness, with one of
their conspicuous natures being to solve any
problems and conflicts through dialogue.
The language used by the tribe is somewhat complex
in its expression as to have the expression
of respect, equality, and disrespect, which
are used in consideration whether communication
counterpart appears in the sentence or of his
or her age and social status. Depending on the
social status, wordings are used differently
for the friends or the younger, those of the
low social status and those of the higher status,
and the languages for these two different classes
are used in combination in accordance to the
age and social status of the dialogue counterpart,
constituting a more complicate pattern of the
use of the language.
One of the long traditional customs of the tribe
is to the spirit of mutual cooperation and assistance
(Gotong Royong) whereby to solve all the civil
affairs through discussions.
The tribe has various types of houses in terms
of materials used and their shapes. The pillars
and girders can be made of coconut trees or
teak trees, walls are erected with sliced bamboos
tied to each others, timber plates or cement
bricks, roofs built with dried coconut leaves
or roofing tiles. In spite of the variety of
building materials used, the houses are built
in a certain fixed form, by which the shape
of the houses is in a rectangular type. Inside
of the house is divided into a few small rooms
that are portioned with bamboo-made walls that
are easily movable, with drawer doors but no
windows. Sun right come from the holes of the
crack in the walls or in the roof. For the Java
Tribe, the size and the shape of the roof is
a kind of symbol representing one's social status
and dignity. The people have been known for
strong religious belief, that
has been much affected by the traditional Javanesse
culture.
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