| has gloss | eng: This is a timeline of Indonesian history. Pre-history *Pleistocene: The modern geological form of Indonesia appears, linked to Asian mainland. *2 million to 500,000 years ago: Indonesia is inhabited by Homo erectus, now popularly known as the Java Man. *40,000 BCE: Earliest human societies first thought to have existed in parts of the Indonesian archipelago, highlands of the Malay Peninsula, and the Philippines. *3,000 BCE: The modern peoples of Indonesia of Austronesian origins are thought to have first reached the northern Philippines. They reach eastern Indonesian and Borneo by 2,000 BCE, and New Guinea, Java and Sumatra between 1,500BCE and 1,000BCE. *200 BCE: Dvipantara or Jawa Dwipa Hindu kingdom is thought to have existed in Java and Sumatra. |
