Australia has called off its rescue operation for survivors of a boat carrying asylum seekers that sank near Indonesia's Java Island.
The history of the island of Java during that period is perhaps the best reply to the question.
The next day, more than 20 died in a plane crash at Yogyakarta, on the neighbouring island of Java .
Several thousand arrived in the Moluccas after sailing from the main Indonesian island of Java, over 2, 000km (1, 240 miles) away.
For nearly a year, parts of Indonesia, especially its most populated island, Java, have been prone to outbreaks of mob violence.
For decades, the government has relied on that revenue to pay for development elsewhere, especially in the overpopulated island of Java.
Some districts on the main island of Java have introduced bylaws that resemble Islamic law, and regulate matters such as women's dress.
More than a half-century ago, John Chuang's father, Ming Chee Chuang, fled Burma and settled in Bandung, on the Indonesian island of Java.
The survey will also try to avoid another pitfall: that of paying too much attention to the main island, Java, on which sits Indonesia's capital, Jakarta.
The loss of Aceh's natural wealth would certainly be a major blow to the capital, Jakarta, which sits on the populous but resource-barren island of Java.
Second, he frequently makes contradictory statements, which may do him no harm in Indonesia's main island of Java, where oblique utterances are the norm, but which infuriate the straight-talking people of Aceh.
Unlike urban middle-class families on the main island of Java, these farmers have benefited from the collapse of Indonesia's currency, since that raised the nominal value of cash crops such as coffee, palm oil and rubber.
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The epicentre of the latest tragedy, at 5.54am on May 27th, was off the south coast of Java, the country's most densely populated island, just outside the ancient royal city of Yogyakarta.
Christmas Island, around 220 miles south of Java and around 1, 600 miles from the Australian mainland, is a front line for Australia's border protection and a black spot for the often rickety boats that smugglers use to transport people seeking asylum.
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In 1883, a massive eruption of a volcano on the island of Krakatoa in the Sundra Strait between Java and Sumatra began.
The latest violence resurrects the conflict that erupted in early 1997 in the same area north of the provincial capital Pontianak between Dayaks and Madurese, whose roots lie in the island of Madura off the northeast coast of Java.
The researchers had thought the Hobbit's island-hopping ancestor was Homo erectus, which is known to have lived on nearby Java.
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