JOKJAKARTA, or JOKJOKARTA (more correctly JOKYAKARTA; Du. Djokjakarta)  , a residency of the island of Java, Dutch East Indies, bounded N. by Kedu and Surakarta, E. by Surakarta, S. by the Indian Ocean, W. by Bagelen . Pop . (1897), 858,392 . The country is mountainous with the exception of a wedge-like strip in the middle between the rivers Progo and Upak . In the north-west are the southern slopes of the volcano Merapi, and in the east the Kidul hills and the plateau of Sewn . The last-named is an arid and scantily populated chalk range,with numerous small summits, whence it is also known as the Thousand Hills . The remainder of the residency is well-watered and fertile, important irrigation works having been carried out . Sugar, rice and indigo are cultivated; salt-making is practised on the coast . The minerals include coal-beds in the Kidul hills and near Nangulan, marble and gold in the neighbourhood of Kalasan . The natives are poor, owing chiefly to maladministration, the use of opium and the usury practised by foreigners (Chinese, Arabs, &c.) . The principality is divided between the sultan (vassal of the Dutch government) and the so-called independent prince Paku Alam; Ngawen and Imogiri are enclaves of Surakarta . There are good roads, and railways connect the chief town with Batavia, Samarang, Surakarta, &c .

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Jokjakarta (see JAVA) is the seat of the resident, the sultan and the Paku Alam princes; its most remarkable section is the kraton or citadel of the sultan . Imogiri, S.W. of the capital, the burial-place of the princes of Surakarta and Jokjakarta, is guarded by priests and officials . Sentolo, Nangulan, Brosot, Kalasan, Tempel,-Wonosari are considerable villages . There are numerous remains of Hindu temples, particularly in the neighbourhood of Kalasan near the border of Surakarta and Prambanan, which is just across it . Remarkable sacred grottoes are found on the coast, namely, the so-called Nyabi Kidul and Rongkob, and at Selarong, south-east of Jokjakarta .