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Its people belong to the oceanic branch of the Mongoloid race with light brown skin, straight black hair, high cheekbones, small and slender builds. Here live primarily two ethnic groups, the Sundanese of West Java (15 million) and the Javanese of Central and East Java (about 65 million). The Dutch concentration of all their resources on Java for several hundred years greatly increased the differences between it and the other islands of Indonesia. Educationally, it's the most advanced. Java's technological institutes form the backbone of Indonesia's tertiary education. Java is top heavy with industry, the island of opportunity where young men flock to find jobs. Yet, because of its giant population, Java could never survive if it were left to its own resources: it would be a head without a body. Java is both young and old. It was the genesis of Indonesia's most powerful martime and agricultural kingdoms, and contains by far the best preserved and highest number of monuments, many completed centuries before Columbus discovered America.