Indonesia: an early 19th-century pencil sketch of a Javanese ploughman.

This early 19th- century pencil sketch shows a Javanese ploughman tending to his rice paddy. His plough is pulled by two water buffaloes.

With a population of 136 million, Java is the world's most populous island, and one of the most densely populated regions in the world. It is home to 60% of Indonesia's population. The Indonesian capital city, Jakarta, is in west Java.

Java was the centre of powerful Hindu-Buddhist empires, Islamic sultanates, the core of the colonial Dutch East Indies, and was at the centre of Indonesia's campaign for independence. The island dominates Indonesian social, political and economic life.

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