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In one famous and widely accepted narrative, the Indonesians at first accepted and celebrated the Japanese occupation because of the Jayabaya prophecy. Does such prophecy actually existed and how influential or known was it in the Indonesian/Javanese society at the time?

by /u/Zooasaurus in /r/AskHistorians

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