The origin of the Javanese calendar used when the Sultan Agung came to power in Matarama (photo Illustration: Fripic)
CALENDAR They say that Java began to develop in the era of the Sultan Aguung, being in power in the kingdom of the Mataram Islam. Indeed, during the time of the Sultan, Agung Mataram turned into a large kingdom on the island of Java. At that time, the territory of Matarama began to expand to the east side of Java.
Sultan Agung himself is the successor of Prince Halagravati. He is the third king of the Sultanate of Matarama, with the full name of the Sultan Agung Adi Prab Khaunarokusumo. The figure of the Sultan Agung brought the kingdom to the Matars to become a great kingdom on Java island.
Sultan Agung ruled the third king after Panamnabahan Senopati and Prince Halanganyati. The full name is the rules as the third king in the mataram. During the reign of Sultan Agung, as they said, the Islamic Java calendar began to be used.
The Javanese calendar was created by combining the calendar of Islamic Hiji, which was used by the Northern coastal community with the Saka calendar used by the internal community. The result was created by the Islamic Java calendar, which united the inhabitants of Matarama. The Javanese calendar begins with a month of stern.
At that time, there was a region of the Mataram, which was on the coast and the inside, which was still thick with its Hindu-Buddhist culture. In the hands of the Sultan Agung, the kingdom of the Mataram became a kingdom, which was so against colonialism.
Distributed in the book “Tuami Mataram: from Panamnabahan Senopati to Amang venue II”, writing Peri Mardono, due to his determination against colonialism, the Sultan Agung once attacked a moose in Batavia. The younger king, who climbed the throne at the age of 20, was known for the bold enough to fight colonialism.
Even when the VOC, based in Ambon in 1614, VOC invited the Sultan Agung to work together by sending his delegation to the Matars. But this request for negotiations was rejected from Sultan Aguung.
