ABSTRACT
Description: Officially founded as a city in 1755, Yogyakarta (commonly shortened to Yogya) is intimately bound up with the history of the sultanate of Mataram, which emerged as a major power in Central and East Java in the second half of the sixteenth century. In 1755 Mataram was split into the two kingdoms of Surakarta and Yogyakarta, and the city was established as the seat of the Yogyakarta sultan. It was the center of a revolt against the Dutch colonial government in the nineteenth century and was, for a time, the principal base of the Indonesian revolution in the twentieth. It is now the capital of the semi-autonomous district of Yogyakarta and the seat of the highest court of Indonesia.
