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Indonesia: A scene from the 'Serat Panji Jayakusuma', perhaps three royal princes meeting a holy man. Illustration in wayang (shadow puppet) style from an manuscript in Javanese script, late 18th-early 19th century

Indonesia: A scene from the 'Serat Panji Jayakusuma', perhaps three royal princes meeting a holy man. Illustration in wayang (shadow puppet) style from an manuscript in Javanese script, late 18th-early 19th century

The Javanese script, natively known as Hanacaraka), Carakan, or Aksara Jawa, is a pre-colonial script used to write Javanese and several other native languages of Indonesia. It is closely related to the Balinese script.

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