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In the recent literature, opinions converge towards a tectonic model of south Java, suggesting that some of the crust under south Java (onshore and offshore) may consist of continental fragments with Australian affinity which has been amalgamated into Java, possibly the Sunda Craton. This paper attempts to put these aspects and field observations into a consistent, albeit hypothetical, plate tectonic model and illustrates this model with a series of conceptual cross-section. Gravity modeling is employed to support this hypothesis but is, by itself, compelling but not conclusive. If this hypothesis can be proven valid by means of sedimentology or other methods, wide areas, as yet considered nonprospective, may become of interest for petroleum exploration.