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UNESCO recognizes Javanese alphabet
The Jakarta Post , Jakarta | Mon, 11/02/2009 11:52 AM | National
UNESCO has agreed the Javanese alphabet, among other internationally accepted sets of characters such as Latin, Chinese and Arabic, may be used as a computer script.
“The Javanese alphabet has been recognized by UNICODE, an organization under
UNESCO that deals with alphabetic code standards in computers,” Aryo Tumoro,
chief editor of the oldest Javanese magazine Penyebar Semangat told Antara state news agency Monday.
UNICODE awarded the international status to the Javanese alphabet on Oct. 2,
the day when UNESCO accepted batik as part of Indonesian cultural heritage. It
was proposed by Javanese literature expert Ki Demang Sokowaten from Yogyakarta on Sept. 9, 2007.
“Thanks to the world recognition, we can ask our computer programmers to
introduce the Javanese alphabet as a computer font,” Aryo said.
Sukowaten launched his Javanese language website www.ki-demang.com in January 2006 which contains, among other
things, Javanese philosophy, short stories, folklore and recipes.
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