Questions Answered in The Power of Ancients
(disclaimers at the bottom)
BAHASA INDONESIA:
Sejarah Alternatif (Fantasi) di The Power of Ancients
yang menjelaskan hal-hal penting di antaranya:

  1. Siapa Dayang Sumbi yang sebenarnya?
  2. Siapa Sangkuriang yang sebenarnya?
  3. Mengapa suku Baduy (Kanekes) menolak teknologi modern?
  4. Apa yang terjadi dengan "Danau Bandung"?
  5. Mengapa Tangkuban Perahu berbentuk seperti sekarang ini?
  6. Di mana letaknya Gunung Sunda pada zaman purba kala, dan apa yang terjadi dengan gunung tersebut?
  7. Apa asal usul debus?
  8. Apa asal usul senjata keris?
  9. ​Apakah pusat budaya Jawa kuno berlokasi di Jawa Barat atau Jawa Tengah?
  10. Berapa lamakah orang Jawa mempergunakan idiom “Sudah bau tanah?”
  11. Seperti apa pulau Jawa sebelum agama Hindu masuk ke pulau ini?
  12. Berapa lama gunung-gunung di Jawa dijaga oleh seorang “penjaga?”
  13. Mengapa pohon-pohon beringin sering dikaitkan dengan dunia supranatural?
  14. Benih dari Sumpah Pemuda 1928 sebenarnya berasal dari mana?
ENGLISH:
An alternative history (fantasy) in The Power of Ancients
that answers important questions such as:

  1. Who was the real Dayang Sumbi?
  2. Who was the real Sangkuriang?
  3. Why do the Baduy (Kanekes) people reject modern technology?
  4. What happened to Lake Bandung?
  5. How did Mount Tangkuban Perahu get its present shape?
  6. Where was Mount Sunda, and what happened to it?
  7. What are the origins of debus?
  8. What are the origins of the keris weapons?
  9. ​Was the ancient cultural capital of Java centered in West Java or Central Java?
  10. How long have people on Java used the idiom, “smells like dirt?”
  11. What was Java like before Hinduism came to the island?
  12. How long have mountains in Java been guarded by “wardens?”
  13. Why is the banyan tree often associated with the supernatural world?
  14. Where did the seeds for the 1928 Youth Pledge really come from?
Disclaimers:
  1. This fantasy novel series is a re-writing of West Java's most famous myth and incorporates elements of cultures from tribes all over what is today called Indonesia, their legends, controversies, landmarks, and geological formations. 
  2. The list of questions above is merely for fun, though all the questions will be answered throughout the trilogy—just in a fantastical way.
  3. The novel is a work of fiction, though some events in the story surrounding  geological changes are changes that are believed to have occurred at some point in actual Javanese history.
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