{"id":124356,"date":"2026-09-14T13:20:41","date_gmt":"2026-09-14T07:50:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=124356"},"modified":"2026-09-14T13:20:41","modified_gmt":"2026-09-14T07:50:41","slug":"java-sea","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/java-sea\/","title":{"rendered":"Java Sea"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><b>Java Sea Latest News<\/b><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">An Indonesian passenger ship carrying 243 people was reported missing after losing \u200ccontact in the Java Sea early during bad weather.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><b>About Java Sea<\/b><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It is a <\/span><b>portion of the western Pacific Ocean<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> situated between the <\/span><b>islands of Java and Borneo.<\/b><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It is bordered by <\/span><b>Borneo (Kalimantan) on the north<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, the southern end of <\/span><b>Makassar Strait<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> on the northeast, <\/span><b>Celebes and the Flores<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> and <\/span><b>Bali seas<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> on the east, <\/span><b>Java<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> on the south, the <\/span><b>Sunda Straits<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> on the <\/span><b>southwest and <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Sumatra on the west.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It <\/span><b>forms part of the Sunda Shelf,<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> a shallow part of the continental shelf of Southeast Asia.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Java Sea experiences a <\/span><b>typical monsoon climate.<\/b><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It is home to several <\/span><b>protected national parks<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> such as <\/span><b>Ujung Kulon and Karimunjawa.<\/b><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><b>Resources:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> It is home to a wealth of marine life, as well as <\/span><b>petroleum and natural gas<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> deposits that are instrumental to Indonesia&#8217;s export economy.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>Source: <\/b><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.indiatoday.in\/world\/story\/indonesia-ferry-overturns-java-sea-129-missing-108-rescued-ptag-2993884-2026-09-13\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">IT<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Java Sea is a portion of the western Pacific Ocean situated between the islands of Java and Borneo. Read more about Java Sea, Location, Resources, Latest News.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":124421,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[10235],"class_list":["post-124356","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","tag-java-sea","no-featured-image-padding"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124356","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/24"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=124356"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124356\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":124415,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124356\/revisions\/124415"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/124421"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=124356"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=124356"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=124356"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}