Central Java

Indonesia

Central Java connects with 6490 places across 25 topics through 360 Bunkabop connections, with government and colonial history forming the bulk of those ties. Dutch colonial rule imposed the Cultivation System in the 1840s, forcing cash-crop production of indigo and sugar over rice. Religion runs as a secondary thread, tied to the spread of Islam through the Wali Songo saints. Many of its co-place connections cluster around Yogyakarta, Jakarta, and neighbors across the Indonesian archipelago.