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A joglo-type roof in Central Java pavilion, Taman Mini Indonesia Indah, modeled after Mangkunegaran palace

Javanese traditional house (Javanese: ꦲꦺꦴꦩꦃꦠꦿꦝꦶꦱꦶꦪꦺꦴꦤꦭ꧀ꦗꦮ, romanized: Omah tradhisional Jawa) refers to the traditional vernacular houses of Javanese people in the island of Java, Indonesia.

Landhuis Depan in Batavia is a Dutch Indies country houses which had completely assimilated with the Javanese house style.
Javanese hierarchy of roof formAn extended kampung-type roof in a house of Javanese common people.Limasan-type roof associated with higher status Javanese families appears in this house in a village near Salatiga.Joglo-type roof appears in this residence of the head of a village in Jepara.Tajug-type or Meru-type roof is always reserved for sacred spaces such as this mosque in Yogyakarta.
Layout of an ideal Javanese house compound. Legend: 1. lawang pintu 2. pendopo 3. peringgitan 4. emperan 5. dalem 6. senthong 7. gandok 8. dapur (kitchen)
Side entrance to a gandok in the Omah UGM, Kotagede

See also

References

  1. Gunawan Tjahjono 1998, p. 34.

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