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1. The first boat was found in Egypt

2. How do Austronesians bring big impact to Indonesian culture nowadays

3. The relationship between Austronesians and Ancient Indonesians make a different cultures which creates diverse ethnics

Ni Putu Wistarani Pradnyani

Kenara Nayaka Arupi Pama

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Rafael & Azmi

1. The statement that surprised us was that Austronesian introduced rice farming to Indonesia using techniques like wet farming cultivation, common on the island of Java. We were also surprised to learn that other farming techniques exist that don't use Austronesian methods, such as dry farming techniques in some area.

2. Now we wonder, what other techniques that we learn from Austronesian. Does Austronesian's people teach us through kindness of their heart or just by coincidence at the market. If our agriculture techniques is from Austronesian, what will happen to Indonesian now if Austronesian teach us all knowledge they have.

3. This statement is certainly very relevant to where and we and our families came from. Azmi come from the island of Java, famous for its rice granaries and vast rice paddies. Some families are closely involved in jobs involving this. This certainly opens up opportunities beyond our roots

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1. I was most surprised when the slides showed how all of Indonesian ethnic languages all came from one single root, something named "Proto-Austronesian". Another thing that shocked us was that how the Egypt invented the boat?!? Both of us thought that Egypt was hot, dry and deserts covered with sands.

2. - What was the purpose of the Egyptians crafting a boat?

- How did the Proto-Austronesian's parent language spread and grow throughout SEA?

- How does one ethnics create their own language?

3. Enzo and I (Zach) came from different ethnicities. I'm from Batak and Enzo from Minahasa. These statements make us figure out how such different languages of ours could trace back to a single parent language.

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For the statement that surprised me the most was the sentence where Austronesians were actually the ones responsible for introducing rice-farming techniques to the Indonesian people. With that newfound information, I now have more questions that I have in mind. one of them being, how much of an impact does Austronesians have to the Indonesian culture? As for my family, i come from Yogyakarta. The relation between Austronesians with my hometown probably comes in the farming sector, because as far as i know, Yogyakarta is known for their rice farms.

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We were surprised when turns out there is a term to say ancestors of Asia as Austronesian. We also questioning about how genius our ancestors were because they are able to create so many various languages and even make new alphabets and creating the traditions and culture. Both of us are come from Java and those knowledge will relate to us because as javanese we may have another ethnics inside ourself

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Adhi and Kenzie photo at 10:20:21 WIB 21st of August 2025, Global Darussalam Academy, Pakem, DI Yogyakarta

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Reflection

Adhi and Kenzie

Answer from Adhi:

No statements surprised me at all since We've known and at least learned and understood how our origins came to Indonesia even if we forgot some. We have high dedication and wants in learning history

Now we have some questions, how did those austronesian people developed civilization that's recorded before the interventions of the colonialism or the westerners?

How are such different ethnics from different countries connected by the origins or austronesian people? How did some of their stuff ( such as languages ) manages to stay in such different environments around the world?

It relates with us a lot since Adhi Mom came from Minangkabau and both of our dad and Kenzie's Mom came from Javanese. In their both respective ethnics, they have such different beliefs. Minangkabau uses matrilineal and Javanese uses Patrilineal. Javanese are mostly discipline and loyal, Minangkabau are strong in their mind and their tongue. But we want to know how they correlate with each other from the origin of both respective ethnics.

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Salsa & Laras <3

What we thought was most surprising was that it wasn't the Ancient Indonesians who discovered the idea of a boat but instead the Ancient Egyptians.

The question we have is ; if the Indonesians didn't discover the boat, then from where did they know the idea of a boat is from?

Our family came from different parts of Indonesia but there's a slight chance that our ancestors come from different parts of the world through voyaging.

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1. Austronesians introduced rice farming to Indonesia

2. How did the introduction of rice farming by the Austronesians influence the development of early Indonesian societies?

3. The Javanese who are the descendants of the Austronesian migrants are the one who brought wet farming to Java around 2000–1500 BCE

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Akhdan M. Azka and Doni Chandra A. W.

Statement that's surprising: Austronesian people are the one that taught Indonesian people how to plant rice in wet lands.

New questions: 1) Does history shaped people or do people shaped the history? 2) From the statement that surprised me, does that mean Indonesia know boat more than farming rice? 3) Where did ancient Indonesian people came from? 4) How Homo sapiens has made and what is the first form?

My family maybe came from the austronesian also, but maybe they could be came from another people.

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1. The statement that surprised us the most is the second, it stated that Austronesians introduced rice farming to Indonesia.

2. This statement, which turned out to be a fact, sparked a new question for us: which country introduced it to Indonesia?

3. As Indonesians, we consume rice in almost all of our meals, and not eating it would feel incomplete. With this habit, we previously thought that Indonesians discovered rice farming themselves.

(Salma Humaira & Rifky Afuwu)

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Dexter & Dimas

1. Other austronesian language also have some word that are the same with us.

2. Does this only happen in languages context?

3. My family come from javanese ethic, while dimas from minang, this make our traditional language also have some similar words.

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We think, the most interesting one was the fact that some words in Indonesian language are also spoken in other Austronesian language such as Ibu, Air, and Mata

To what extent does culture and traditions affect peoples behavior? - Valery

Why does the Austronesian languages have similar words? - Evelyn

We think this relates because we can know where our ancestors are from by tracing back to the root of Indonesian peoples ancestors and studying how they communicate and their behavior.

Evelyn Shonaya and Valery Kezia L.🩷

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Which statement surprised you most

What new questions do you have?

How does this relate to where your family comes from?