diff --git a/.travis.yml b/.travis.yml
index 2439529..c4154e9 100644
--- a/.travis.yml
+++ b/.travis.yml
@@ -11,7 +11,7 @@ cache:
   - src/java/guava/
 env:
   global:
-    - FIELD=auto  BIGNUM=auto  SCALAR=auto  ENDOMORPHISM=no  STATICPRECOMPUTATION=yes  ASM=no  BUILD=check  EXTRAFLAGS=  HOST=  ECDH=no  RECOVERY=no  EXPERIMENTAL=no
+    - FIELD=auto  BIGNUM=auto  SCALAR=auto  ENDOMORPHISM=no  STATICPRECOMPUTATION=yes  ASM=no  BUILD=check  EXTRAFLAGS=  HOST=  ECDH=no  RECOVERY=no  EXPERIMENTAL=no  JNI=no
     - GUAVA_URL=https://search.maven.org/remotecontent?filepath=com/google/guava/guava/18.0/guava-18.0.jar GUAVA_JAR=src/java/guava/guava-18.0.jar
   matrix:
     - SCALAR=32bit    RECOVERY=yes
@@ -29,7 +29,7 @@ env:
     - BUILD=distcheck
     - EXTRAFLAGS=CPPFLAGS=-DDETERMINISTIC
     - EXTRAFLAGS=CFLAGS=-O0
-    - BUILD=check-java ECDH=yes EXPERIMENTAL=yes
+    - BUILD=check-java JNI=yes ECDH=yes EXPERIMENTAL=yes
 matrix:
   fast_finish: true
   include:
@@ -65,5 +65,5 @@ before_script: ./autogen.sh
 script:
  - if [ -n "$HOST" ]; then export USE_HOST="--host=$HOST"; fi
  - if [ "x$HOST" = "xi686-linux-gnu" ]; then export CC="$CC -m32"; fi
- - ./configure --enable-experimental=$EXPERIMENTAL --enable-endomorphism=$ENDOMORPHISM --with-field=$FIELD --with-bignum=$BIGNUM --with-scalar=$SCALAR --enable-ecmult-static-precomputation=$STATICPRECOMPUTATION --enable-module-ecdh=$ECDH --enable-module-recovery=$RECOVERY $EXTRAFLAGS $USE_HOST && make -j2 $BUILD
+ - ./configure --enable-experimental=$EXPERIMENTAL --enable-endomorphism=$ENDOMORPHISM --with-field=$FIELD --with-bignum=$BIGNUM --with-scalar=$SCALAR --enable-ecmult-static-precomputation=$STATICPRECOMPUTATION --enable-module-ecdh=$ECDH --enable-module-recovery=$RECOVERY --enable-jni=$JNI $EXTRAFLAGS $USE_HOST && make -j2 $BUILD
 os: linux
diff --git a/configure.ac b/configure.ac
index a133afd..68c45a5 100644
--- a/configure.ac
+++ b/configure.ac
@@ -135,9 +135,9 @@ AC_ARG_ENABLE(module_recovery,
     [enable_module_recovery=no])
 
 AC_ARG_ENABLE(jni,
-    AS_HELP_STRING([--enable-jni],[enable libsecp256k1_jni (default is auto)]),
+    AS_HELP_STRING([--enable-jni],[enable libsecp256k1_jni (default is no)]),
     [use_jni=$enableval],
-    [use_jni=auto])
+    [use_jni=no])
 
 AC_ARG_WITH([field], [AS_HELP_STRING([--with-field=64bit|32bit|auto],
 [Specify Field Implementation. Default is auto])],[req_field=$withval], [req_field=auto])