Abstract

Old Javanese is the foremost classical language of Indonesia. Competence in this language provides access to a rich Indianized literary tradition and a wide epigraphic corpus covering the period from 800 to 1500 ce. But it is not regularly taught in any Western university, and no solid conditions for its study exist even in Indonesia. Given this state of affairs, the Ecole francaise d’Extreme-Orient (EFEO) and the National Library of Indonesia (Perpusnas) launched a collaboration for the firs...

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