INDONESIA

INDONESIA.

Musical instruments.
Java map and celempung.
First stamp in a set of 16, issued on 01.02.1967.
Face value: 0.50 Indonesian rupiah.
Printing: Photogravure.
Size: 25 x 32 mm.

Catalogs
- Michel No. 562.
- Scott No. 705.
- StampWorld No. 604.
- Stanley Gibbons No. 1140.
- Yvert et Tellier No. 498.
- Zonnebloem No. 563.

Java (Indonesian: Jawa or [formerly] Djawa) is one of the Greater Sunda Islands in Indonesia. It is bordered by the Indian Ocean to the south and the Java Sea to the north. Its area is 129,904 km² (50,156 sq mi) and in 2020 it had a population of 147,795,436 inhabitants. The island is divided into four administrative provinces: Banten, West Java, Central Java, and East Java, and two special regions, Jakarta and Yogyakarta. In its territory four main languages ​​are spoken: Javanese, Sundanese, Madurese, and Betawi. Java is almost entirely of volcanic origin; it contains thirty-eight mountains forming an east–west spine that have at one time or another been active volcanoes. The highest volcano in the island is Mount Semeru, 3,676 m (12,060 ft), and the most active volcano is Mount Merapi, 2,930 m (9,610 ft). In total, Java has more than 150 mountains.

The celempung is a string instruments used in Javanese gamelan. It have between 11 and 13 pairs of strings, strung on each side, between a box resonator. Typically the strings on one side tuned to pelog and the other to slendro.