{"id":84232,"date":"2026-01-25T11:34:16","date_gmt":"2026-01-25T06:04:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=84232"},"modified":"2026-01-27T15:36:02","modified_gmt":"2026-01-27T10:06:02","slug":"java-island","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/java-island\/","title":{"rendered":"Java Island"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><b>Java Island Latest News<\/b><\/h2>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Indonesia\u2019s main island of Java has been recently hit by a massive landslide in which at least 8 people have been reported to be killed.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><b>About Java Island<\/b><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It is a very <\/span><b>large island <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">in the country of <\/span><b>Indonesia<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It is the <\/span><b>13th largest island globally.<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> It is also the fifth largest in Indonesia.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It&#8217;s <\/span><b>part of the Greater Sunda Islands,<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> which also includes Sumatra, Borneo, and Sulawesi.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><b>To the north<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> of the island is the <\/span><b>Java Sea, across which <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">the<\/span><b> island of Borneo <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">is found.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><b>To the south<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> is part of the <\/span><b>Indian Ocean.<\/b><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><b>To Java\u2019s northwest, across the Sunda Strait, i<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">s the <\/span><b>island of Sumatra.<\/b><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Java was <\/span><b>created by volcanoe<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">s. This happened because the <\/span><b>Australian Plate slid under the Sunda Plate.\u00a0\u00a0<\/b><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><b>History<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">:<\/span>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It was once the <\/span><b>center of powerful Hindu-Buddhist kingdoms.\u00a0<\/b><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><b>Later, Islamic sultanates <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">ruled the island.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It also became the main part of the <\/span><b>colonial Dutch East Indies.<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Java was key to Indonesia&#8217;s fight for independence in the 1930s and 1940s.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Java is the <\/span><b>most populated island in the world.\u00a0<\/b>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">About 156.4 million people live there. This means about <\/span><b>56% of all Indonesians <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">call Java home.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><b>Jakarta, Indonesia&#8217;s capital city<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, is on Java&#8217;s northwest coast.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>Source: <\/b><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wionews.com\/world\/at-least-8-killed-in-landslide-in-indonesia-s-java-several-missing-1769244956744\/amp\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">WION<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Java Island is Indonesia\u2019s fifth largest island, part of the Greater Sunda Islands, bordered by the Java Sea and Indian Ocean, and formed by volcanism.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":84405,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[4945,21,22,23],"class_list":{"0":"post-84232","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","8":"tag-java-island","9":"tag-prelims-pointers","10":"tag-upsc-current-affairs","11":"tag-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","12":"no-featured-image-padding"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84232","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\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=84232"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84232\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/84405"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=84232"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=84232"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=84232"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}