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The Kedukan Bukit inscription, dated to 682, photographed in a National Museum of Indonesia display. The catalogue description and camera date disagree, so no photograph year is asserted here.
Picture source & rightsGunawan Kartapranata / Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Resized and converted to WebP; derivative under the same licence · Licence terms

Asia / Trade

Srivijaya: rivers, seaways and Buddhist learning in early Indonesia

Early Indonesian history was shaped by river communities, ports and religious journeys. Srivijaya connected southern Sumatra to wider Asian exchange without resembling a modern nation with fixed borders.

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