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Old 23rd July 2009, 02:25 AM   #16
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Originally Posted by A. G. Maisey
I did not set out to give our readers here a history lesson, my objective was to give an easy to read gloss that put the body of the story without the details. I wanted to do this because I believe it is necessary to understand the less attractive parts of any society's history in order to fully appreciate the beauty of the more attractive aspects of the society. Far too often we glorify a society and a culture and we have the ludicrous spectacle of half educated people falling in love with that society, but really not knowing much about it. If we can fully understand both the positives and negatives of a society and culture, and still love it, that is true love.Much the same as true love between people.
Thanks a lot, Alan,
Me either, I just want to tell the reality that actually in the dark side of Javanese history in the past was -- King PB II "had given the whole Mataram souvereignity while he was in grave ill to the Dutch Compagnie" on 1747, and Mangkubumi -- the younger brother of PB II from different mother -- had struggled to get a half of it and he succeeded in 1755, from the hand of Verenigde Oost-Indische Compagnie (headed by the Dutch) which had given the full right by PB II to handle Mataram kingdom. And that is Yogyakarta now...

I have learned a lot from the fault of the javanese in the past

Thank you, Alan

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