Inspired by ancient Indonesia kingdoms, self-proclaimed Javanese ‘kings’ gain followers, money
Budi Sutrisno The Jakarta Post Sat, January 18, 2020
Tourists visit the sultanate palace called Kraton Ngayogyakarta Hadiningrat in Yogyakarta. Sultan Hamengkubuwono X of Yogyakarta is the only hereditary royal in Indonesia who still has administrative claims over his territory. He is the current governor of Yogyakarta, which is mandated by a law on Yogyakarta’s special status. Other regional heads in Indonesia are elected. (Shutterstock/Lano Lan)
JAKARTA, Indonesia – The ruckus over “Keraton Agung Sejagat” (World Empire) has not settled, yet the Indonesian internet sphere was once again rocked by the emergence of the so-called Sunda Empire-Earth Empire in Bandung, West Java, claiming to be on a mission to settle the country’s debts at the World Bank.
A nine-minute video disseminated over YouTube and Facebook showed a man in a room full of people wearing flat light blue caps, passionately explaining the existence of the Sunda Empire-Earth Empire, saying that he was one of the empire’s “governors general”. “Sunda Empire-Earth Empire is a Sun empire, an Earth empire. It doesn’t link to Sundanese [people] because this is a hereditary empire from dynasty to dynasty and currently it is the Sundakala dynasty,” said the man..
From: THE JAKARTA POST (INDONESIA) Sat, January 18, 2020
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