The Jakarta Post

Pegon: a Javanese script of acculturation and resistance is fading

An Arabic-Javanese writing system used by scholars during wartime is at risk of being forgotten. Pegon is an Arabic-Javanese writing system that was used by Javanese Islamic scholars during ...
Channel NewsAsia Singapore

This man can read and write 30 ancient Indonesian scripts, some as old as 500 years

JAKARTA: Diaz Nawaksara grew up during the rise of the Internet and telecommunications. When the 30-year-old went to college, he decided to study information management, focusing on storing ...
Tempo

Transliterating Ancient Scripts of Javanese Gending

TEMPO.CO, Jakarta - Yogyakarta Cultural Agency launches a book documenting ancient scripts of Nyaogyakarta gending (Javanese traditional music). Entitled ‘Wiled Berdangga Laras Slendro’, the book was ...
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Glimpses from the rare ‘Menak Amir Hamza’, the Javanese version of the epic on the Prophet’s uncle

Two copies of Menak Amir Hamza, the Javanese story of Amir Hamza, the uncle of the prophet Muhammad, are now available online through the Javanese Manuscripts from Yogyakarta Digitisation Project. The ...