The Bantenese are people living in Banten Province in Java, just west of Jakarta. The area of Banten province corresponds more or less with the area of the former Banten Sultanate. In his book "The Sultanate of Banten", Guillot Claude writes on page 35: “These estates, owned by the Bantenese of Chinese origin, were concentrated around the village of Kelapadua.”People living in Banten, including Chinese, were called Bantenese. Bantenese is actually not an ethnic group, but more as a term for people originated from Banten with Sundanese language as their first language. Most of Bantenese are Muslim.