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Since more than a thousand years ago, several regions in the archipelago have been home to the existence of local kingdoms that can be evidence of the development of civilization in the archipelago, in the past. Based on studies of several archaeological evidence and a number of ancient writings found in the western part of Java, for example, in the past, several ancient kingdoms stood. One of the kingdoms that once ruled and prospered in western Java was the Sunda kingdom or the Pajajaran kingdom which is thought to have existed since the eighth century and collapsed at the end of the sixteenth century.