abstract:Cirebon (formerly referred to as Cheribon in English) is a port city on the north coast of the Indonesian island of Java. It is located in the province of West Java near the provincial border with Central Java, approximately 297 km east of Jakarta, at .
Located by a private exploration company in 2004 off the coast of Cirebon in northern Java, the ship is thought to have foundered in the 10th century as it sailed to Java from Sumatra.
Herman Haeruman, chief of PDM-DKE, admits that the disbursement of money is inescapably influenced by local politics, but insists that Cirebon is one of the few complaints out of the 65, 000 villages in which the program is active.
