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Word of the Hour: Javanese - A native or natives of Java. #WordOfTheHour #WordOfTheDay
November 21, 2025 at 3:30 AM
newsen.bsky.social
CITES Committee Evaluates Breeding Practices of Javanese Macaques in Cambodia#USA#Washington,_D.C.#Cambodia#CITES#Javanese_Macaques
CITES Committee Evaluates Breeding Practices of Javanese Macaques in Cambodia
The CITES Committee has released the findings of its review on Javanese macaque breeding, commending Cambodia's coordination and commitment to animal welfare.
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November 20, 2025 at 7:02 PM
sayaashrah.bsky.social
I haven't thought about it, to be honest, but I'd definitely love for her to start exploring the question of gender in Indonesia, which is the first place she lands in after she leaves the Hells (specifically, in Bali)!

And a Javanese waria panther shifter sounds awesome!
November 20, 2025 at 1:29 PM
jebdarsh.bsky.social
Ohhhhhhhh so I'm super curious if she explores waria culture at all. (I'm writing a javanese waria panther shifter living in Australia, so I've been learning about it)

That's rad though. What a cool gender journey
November 20, 2025 at 12:55 PM
ubertar.bsky.social
Very cool. I'm going to be performing with the UMBC gamelan two days from now (Friday). Javanese and Balinese.
November 19, 2025 at 11:09 PM
putriprihatini.bsky.social
Dressing room photos of my parents wearing black Javanese-style wedding outfits, with "cunduk mentul" hairpins for my mom.

Black is a classic color worn by brides and grooms in Javanese wedding, representing earth-related qualities like humility, strength, magnanimity, and wisdom.

#WyrdWednesday
An old photo of a Javanese woman sitting on a bench in a dressing room with her hands folded on her lap. She wears a thick bun hairstyle with flower-shaped hairpins, tiered gold necklace, black, long-sleeved top with gold embroideries on the hems, and a batik skirt. An old photo of a Javanese woman and man. The man stands next to her with his hand on her shoulder, and she sits on a bench in a dressing room with her hands folded on her lap. She wears a thick bun hairstyle with flower-shaped hairpins, tiered gold necklace, black, long-sleeved top with gold embroideries on the hems, and a batik skirt. He wears a long-sleeved black coat with gold embroideries and batik skirt. A wedding photo of a man and a woman in traditional Javanese wedding style outfits. The man wears a tall black cap with black coat and gold embroideries, his lower half wrapped in a thick batik sarong with gold and black details. He smiles at a woman with floral hairpins and jasmine wreaths on her hair, wearing a long-sleeved black top with gold embroideries and tiered necklace, and a long batik skirt. A wedding photo of a man and a woman in traditional Javanese wedding style outfits. The man wears a round embroidered cap with a brooch, black coat and gold embroideries, his lower half wrapped in a thick batik sarong with delicate brown patterns. He smiles at a woman with floral hairpins and jasmine wreaths on her hair, wearing a long-sleeved black top with gold embroideries and red sash, and a long batik skirt.
November 19, 2025 at 1:25 PM
argum.loves.travel
Sego pecel Madiun
Nasi pecel is a Javanese rice dish served with pecel (cooked vegetables and peanut sauce
#MakanYuk
#GoodLunch
November 19, 2025 at 4:29 AM
westernstyle.live
i keep thinking about my lil javanese godking in ck3. the variety of government types in the game now is so cool...
November 18, 2025 at 8:10 AM
johnsargent.bsky.social
Architectural Setting (from Sketchbook of Javanese Dancers) https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/15572
Gift of Mrs. Francis Ormond, 1950
November 17, 2025 at 4:29 PM
george-1788pow.bsky.social
Ujung Kulon National Park (est. 1992) in western Java, Indonesia, is the last known refuge for the critically- endangered Javanese rhinoceros, with about 85 in the park: elite European trophy hunting decimated the population in the 1800s, and Chinese medicine further eradicated them in the 1900s...
November 17, 2025 at 1:44 PM
george-1788pow.bsky.social
Meru Betiri National Park (est. 1982) in eastern Java, Indonesia, is a marine & terrestrial protection zone; providing habitat for several endangered species. It was the location of the last known-siting of the extinct Javanese tiger in 1976. Area was made a wildlife sanctuary in 1972, but too late.
November 17, 2025 at 1:35 PM
shinyhistorygems.bsky.social
Photograph of a Javanese woman, c. 1900
November 17, 2025 at 8:57 AM
hokutoandy.bsky.social
Warcraft trolls got Afro-Carribean voodoo culture, but started off as "Samurai Shodown's giant Mayan Tam Tam is cool!!"

SNK already gave Indo Javanese mask to their Meso-American fighter, became the Blizzard troll's face.

Would love to see WoW give 'em more SEA, less Warhammer Mad Max Ork, masks.
Tam Tam, He is the greatest warrior and hero of his village, Green Hell. Hearing from the village elders that their sacred artifact is missing, he takes the responsibility of retrieving their stolen treasure, the mysterious jewel called the "Palenke Stone" (named after Palenque). He retrieves it and returns peace to his village. He also protects his village from Amakusa a second time, but fails to prevent the thievery of the village's second artifact, the "Tangiers Stone". As divine punishment, he is transformed into a chimpanzee, Paku Paku. In this form, he helps his younger sister Cham Cham recover both stones for his village. In Warriors Rage, he becomes the chief of his village. The Hudoq is a composite mythical beast that appears in agricultural rites, and has the power to drive away evil spirits from the rice fields. The wearer would be covered from head to foot in a costume of layered leaves. The ears of the mask have horn like projections that represent the wild animal fangs worn historically by Dayak men through their upper ear. Art-Eater ➡️⬇️↘️🐲👊 @Richmond_Lee 30 Apr 2020 Left: Tam Tam from Samurai Shodown (1993) Right: Official art of a troll from Warcraft 2 (1995) Back in the day the devs at Blizzard were big fans of fighting games! I'm certain the way they depict trolls in Warcraft was largely inspired by Tam Tam! Apr 30, 2020 · 6:30 AM UTC Art-Eater ➡️⬇️↘️🐲👊 @Richmond_Lee 30 Apr 2020 Of course Blizzard also drew heavily from D&D, Games Workshop and other sources. But look at the Western fantasy art of the time and compare it to what Capcom and SNK were doing then. It's clear they were as much of a key influence on the development of the Blizzard aesthetic!
November 17, 2025 at 4:29 AM
rezkysrydrzjczyk.bsky.social
and the last is Paes, which are black, painted pattern on the forehead of a bride. I say this if you guys want to make a novel/story centered around Javanese people (2/2)
November 17, 2025 at 12:44 AM
rezkysrydrzjczyk.bsky.social
Yesterday is Sunday, which are the time for people to host wedding party. For Javanese bride, there are three things that they will wear: Cunduk mentul, which are set of decorative, spring-like hairpins, Ronce Melati, which are string of jasmine flower (1/2)
November 17, 2025 at 12:43 AM
metamerican.bsky.social
Head with Turban (from Sketchbook of Javanese Dancers) https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/4825
Gift of Mrs. Francis Ormond, 1950
November 16, 2025 at 2:22 PM
tompepinsky.com
this is very very interesting! I was thinking about my decades-long snarky take on Anderson’s view of power in Javanese culture, which I think is just the same as power in any other culture. Neo-royalism with Javanese characteristics
November 15, 2025 at 8:25 PM
ratoonarchv.bsky.social
gotta be a random thought; so my mom once said that someone tell her that she doesnt sound javanese enough anymore (javanese is her mother tongue, not indonesian).

I wonder if that thing will be happen to me like "Ratoona, you dont sound like indonesian anymore"
November 15, 2025 at 7:46 PM
indigo-icetalons.bsky.social
I'm simmering some Ajam Paniki chicken and Javanese spring beans.
November 15, 2025 at 5:30 PM
putriprihatini.bsky.social
I can't talk enough about how much I love sape sound from the nostalgic side! It was the sound of my childhood, played at school, bookstore, supermarket, ads, airport. I'm East Javanese but the quintessential sound of East Borneo is also a huge part of my life.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=nupU...
SPIRIT OF LELENG - UYAU MORIS (Official)
YouTube video by Uyau Moris
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November 15, 2025 at 5:19 PM
tompepinsky.com
For my part, I have always thought that Anderson’s description of Javanese ideas of power was completely indistinguishable from Western conceptions of power: what it is, how it looks, how it is demonstrated, its peculiar relationship to both concentration and debauchery, and its gender fluidity
November 15, 2025 at 2:01 PM
tompepinsky.com
These are excerpts from Benedict Anderson’s “The Idea of Power in Javanese Culture,” which is well-known for its attempt to showcase a Javanese cultural understanding of political power, and its vivid descriptions of bodily transmission of power from a king to successor. (Yes, he means THAT.)
November 15, 2025 at 1:59 PM
tompepinsky.com
I semi-seriously believe that you can make sense out of the second Trump administration by imagining that he is a Javanese king, demonstrating power through his wahju (enlightenment/revelation), tédja (glow/radiance), possession of sacred objects, and willingness to showcase his virility...
f he represented the first ruler of a new dynasty, he emerged as the man believed to have received the wahju, the divine radiance which passed from the disintegrating Power of one kingdom to the founder of its successor. Very often, the new ruler would be a parvenu of relatively humble origins—such as Ken Angrok, Panembahan Sena- pati, Sukarno, Suharto—coming to power after a period of turmoil and bloodshed usually instigated by the new ruler himself. Though Javanese history is replete with stories of rebellions, the leaders of these rebellions were never said to have the wahju unless they suc- ceeded in establishing a new dynasty. Failure in itself meant retro- spectively that the rebel leader did not have the Power; if he had, he would have succeeded. The main claim to legitimacy of the founder of a new dynasty rested on his successful destruction of a previous center of Power and the belief that in so doing he had received the divine wahju. But it is typical of the Javanese urge toward the center, toward the accumulation of all pools of Power, that the parvenu ruler frequently tried to associate himself through court chronicles with the residues of previous centers of Power and greatness. Schrieke, Berg, and Moertono have amply demonstrated the concerted attempts to link parvenu founders of dynasties with their predecessors through complicated (and often falsified) lines Power to be diffused by indulging their passions without restraint, whereas the former maintain that steadfastness, that tense singleness of purpose which assures the maintenance and continued accumulation of Power.16 Besides this orthodox view of the road to Power, another, hetero- dox tradition exists in Java, historically best exemplified in the per- son of the last ruler of Singhasari, King Kertanagara. In this Bhairavist (Tantric) tradition, Power is sought through a kind of Rimbaudian dereglement systematique des sens—drunkenness, sexual orgies, and ritual murder.17 But even this tradition, which still finds more or less clandestine adherents in contemporary Indonesia, ultimately aims at the same objectives as the more orthodox tradition. For in the Bhairavist belief-system, the system- atic indulgence of the sensual passions in their most extreme form was believed to exhaust these passions, and therefore to allow a mans Power to be concentrated without further hindrance. Thus in both traditions the ultimate aim was concentration for the sake of Power, although the paths chosen to reach this purpose radically diverged. The psychological grip of this image can be glimpsed in a remarkable speech given by Sukarno in 1963, on the occasion of receiving an honorary doctorate at the University of Indonesia in Djakarta.^5 On that occasion he spoke at length about the tedja, noting that various European figures had possessed it, among the most notable of whom was Adolf Hitler. Sukarno's discussion of Hitler and his tedja evoked dismay among some Western observers present, who judged it within the frame of reference of European history. But seen within the Javanese tradition, Sukarno's references were calmly analytical. Nowhere in his references to Hitler was there any mention of the moral qualities of the Fuehrer's rule. The reason for this omission was not that Sukarno lacked appreciation for moral questions, but rather that within the categories of Javanese political theory, the specific moral- ity of a government is quite secondary (both in historical and in analytical terms) to its Power aspects. The fact that Hitler had the tedja was central and formed the starting-point of any analysis of his regime.36 The glow of the tedja was traditionally associated with the public visage of the ruler. Moertono cites the case of Amangkurat III (1703-1708), of whom it was said, when he was about to be de- posed, that having "lost his tjahja (radiance), he looked pale as a Chinese with a stomach-ache." 3T By contrast, of Amangkurat II ( 1677-1703), at the moment of his resolve to resist the incursion of Trunadjaja and to defend the crumbling empire of Mataram, it was related that his followers "did not recognize their lord; formerly his expression was wan and without expression, now his countenance became bright and of a stately gravity." eath of Amangkurat II in 1703, was designed to indicate why Pangeran Puger, who with Dutch assistance usurped the throne from his nephew Amangkurat III, was the deceased sovereigns legitimate successor. "The story is told that the [dead] king's man- hood stood erect and on the top of it was a radiant light (tjahja), only the size of a grain of pepper. But nobody observed it. Only Pangeran Puger saw it. Pangeran Puger quickly sipped up the [drop of] light. As soon as the light had been sipped, the manhood ceased to stand erect. It was Allah's will that Pangeran Puger should succeed to the throne." 39 Indeed the sexual fertility of the ruler is one essential sign of the Power that he holds, for his seed is the microcosmic expression of the Power he has concentrated. The fertility of the ruler was seen as simultaneously evoking and guaran- teeing the fertility of the land, the prosperity of the society, and the expansionist vitality of the empire. The Sukarno period once again provides a striking modern parallel to this old idea. Outside ob- servers of the Indonesian scene frequently remarked that Sukarno's well-publicized sexual activities appeared to do him no political harm. It was even said that the Javanese indulgently expect their rulers to act in this way. But if the foregoing analysis is correct, the political aspects of Sukarno's personal life are overlooked in such a perspective. For signs of the ruler's virility are political indicators that he still has the Power. Conversely, any marked decline in sexual activity could be taken as sign of waning Power in other respects. More sophisticated observers of late Guided Democracy were indeed inclined to suspect that Palace officials deliberately spread exaggerated stories about the President's personal life as part of a continuing effort to maintain his authority.
November 15, 2025 at 1:55 PM
putriprihatini.bsky.social
Published 30 years after "Stone Butch Blues", this memoir by Lamya H. reflects Leslie Feinberg's way of exploring queer identity that doesn't fit into fixed, narrow boxes, as well as intersectionality, acceptance, and unexpected found family. One of few books that made me feel at home. #Booksky
A photograph of Hijab Butch Blues book by Lamya H. The cover art depicts rainbow flag color as the background with a silhouette of a person in hijab and hoodie, putting their hands in their pocket. There is a label that says Stonewall Book Award on the cover. Near the book are two postcards: one with the illustration of two women in Javanese wayang orang costumes dancing together, and one has floral batik pattern with images of small, white flowers on dark background.
November 15, 2025 at 1:07 PM
robbertleusink.bsky.social
In 1711, the first Javanese coffee beans were sold in Amsterdam

The Dutch had been growing coffee in Java since 1699

They controlled the entire supply chain: plantations, shipping, warehouses, auctions

It took 12 years from planting to profitable

Compare that to IPO's and startups nowadays...
November 13, 2025 at 7:04 AM