Site of Batujaya

The site of Batujaya , located at the west of Jakarta, the capital of the Indonesia in the area of Karawang in the province of Western Java, was examined for the first time by experts in 1984.

The site extends on a zone from 5 km ². It revealed some 20 structures hidden in tumuli that the inhabitants of the area call unur .

The importance of this site is due inter alia to the fact that, although the area is the seat of the oldest Hindu-Buddhist kingdom known to date in Indonesia, Tarumanagara, the west of Java does not have many archaeological vestiges of this period. To date, 5 sites only were discovered in the province: the temple of Cangkuang in the area of Garut, Crystallized Crystallized Ronggeng and Pananjung in the area of Ciamis, and the Batujaya sites and Cibuaya with Karawang.

Batujaya is the important one of five. Preliminary research shows that the site would date from Ve or Life centuries, on the basis of inscription on shelves votive presenting of the images of the Bouddha and found on the site. A aute element indicating the Buddhist character of the site is the plan of two of the structures, baptized Candi Jiwa and Candi Asem (of the word indonésien crystallized used to indicate religious constructions of the Hindu-Buddhist period), which shows that it was about Stupa S.

This discovery is important because in particular owing to the fact that up to now, it was thought that the religion of State de Tarumanagara was the Hindouisme.

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