The Javanese calendar is a calendar still in use by the Javanese people of Indonesia concurrently with two other important calendars, the Gregorian calendar and the Islamic calendar. (The Gregorian calendar is the official calendar of the Republic of Indonesia and civil society, while the Islamic calendar is used by Muslims and Government for religious worship and deciding relevant Muslim public holidays.

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  • The Javanese calendar is a calendar still in use by the Javanese people of Indonesia concurrently with two other important calendars, the Gregorian calendar and the Islamic calendar. (The Gregorian calendar is the official calendar of the Republic of Indonesia and civil society, while the Islamic calendar is used by Muslims and Government for religious worship and deciding relevant Muslim public holidays. ) The Javanese calendar is used almost exclusively by the people of Java including the main ethnicities of Java island Javanese, Madurese and Sundanese- primarily as a cultural icon, a cultural identifier and as an object and tradition of antiquity to be kept alive. The Javanese calendar is used for cultural and metaphysical purposes of these Javanese peoples The current Javanese calendar was inaugurated by Sultan Agung of Mataram in the Gregorian year 1633. Prior, Javanese had used the Hindu calendar or Saka calendar which that starts in 78 CE and uses the solar cycle for calculating time . Sultan Agung's Javanese calendar retained the Saka calendar date of origin but differs by using the same lunar year measurement system as the Islamic calendar (based on the lunar month). Occasionally it is referred by its Latin name Anno Javanico or AJ (Javanese Year). The Javanese calendar contains multiple, overlapping separate measurements of times, called cycles. These include the five-day Pasaran cycle of five days the common Gregorian seven-day week the month-cycles of Mangsa and Wulan month-long cycles the year-cycles Tahun cycles of years and octo-ennia (8 year) cycles called Windu The Javanese derive mystical meaning from the coincidence of these multiple cycles. Coincidence is an important part of the Javanese aesthetic, for example the use of seleh and gongan metrical cycles in Javanese music.
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  • The Javanese calendar is a calendar still in use by the Javanese people of Indonesia concurrently with two other important calendars, the Gregorian calendar and the Islamic calendar. (The Gregorian calendar is the official calendar of the Republic of Indonesia and civil society, while the Islamic calendar is used by Muslims and Government for religious worship and deciding relevant Muslim public holidays.
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  • Javanese calendar
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