Betawi's Animism
The Salakanegara Kingdom adheres to the religion left behind by its ancestors, so it is inevitable that the Betawi people also adhere to & believe in the faith of their ancestors. In prehistoric times, the religious culture that was adhered to was animism/dynamism, where they adhered to animism/dynamism beliefs. The beliefs of our ancestors teach about power, which is, above all, power in this world. At the end of the 5th century, the Hindu Kingdom of Tarumanagara was established on the banks of the Citarum River. Precisely, the location of the Kingdom's capital was on the banks of the Candrabhaga River, which Poerbatjaraka identified with the Bekasi River. The presence of Indians in Betawi land destroyed the animist belief system - the dynamism of the ancestors & replaced it with Hindu Buddhism which slowly became the new belief of the Betawi people. Dewi Sri, according to Hindu mythology, is the Goddess of Prosperity. During that time trade with China had advanced. In the