EARLY HISTORY

Early history === ===

The scholars [[India]] has written about [[Dwipantara]] or kingdom [[Hindu]] [[Java Dwipa]] on the island of [[Java]] and [[Sumatra]] around [[200 BC]]. Initial physical evidence is the date from the 5th century the two kingdoms-print [[Hinduism]]: Kingdom of [[Tarumanagara]] control of [[West Java]] and [[Kingdom of Kutai]] on the coast of [[Mahakam River]] , [[Borneo]]. In the year [[425]] religion [[Buddhism]] has reached the area.

At the time [[Europe]] into the [[Renaissance]], [[archipelago]] has a legacy of thousands of years old civilizations with two great kingdoms of [[Srivijaya]] in [[Sumatra]] and [[Majapahit]] in [[Java]], plus dozens of small kingdoms which often become [[vazal]] is more powerful neighbors or connected to each other in a kind of bond trading (as in [[Maluku]]).


SOURCE: WIKIPEDIA