Banten

Banten is the westernmost area on the island of Java, in Indonesia. Its common capital city is Serang. The number of inhabitants in Banten was formally assessed at 11,834,087 toward the beginning of 2014, up from more than 10.6 million amid the 2010 census. Formerly part of the territory of West Java, Banten turned into a different region in 2000. The area is a travel hallway to the neighboring Indonesian island of Sumatra. Truly, it has had a culture particular from whatever is left of Java and that of the more extensive Indonesian archipelago.

Lately, the northern half, especially those territories close Jakarta and the Java Sea drift, have encountered fast ascents in populace and urbanization, while the southern half, especially that confronting the Indian Ocean, keeps up a greater amount of its conventional character. In the5th century, Banten was a piece of the Kingdom of Tarumanagara. The Lebak relic engravings, found in swamp towns on the edge of Ci Danghiyang, Munjul, Pandeglang, Banten, were found in 1947 and contains 2 lines of verse with Pallawa content and Sanskrit language.

The engravings talk about the mettle of ruler Purnawarman. After the crumple of the Tarumanagara kingdom, because of an assault by Srivijaya, control in the western Java tumbled to the Kingdom of Sunda. The Chinese source, Chu-fan-chi, composed around 1225, Chou Ju-kua made reference to that in the mid 13th Century, Srivijaya still governed Sumatra, the Malay landmass, and western Java Sunda.