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Floating Village in Tempe Lake, Wajo
Floating village located in Tempe lake , Sengkang, South Sulawesi is a unique village where all the inhabitants floats on the surface of the lake . Construction of houses floating village is basically similar to the simple stilt houses of South Sulawesi society at large , but half the height of the pillars of the house there is a series of bamboo structure is bound to form rafts that make a house can float easily when water lakes experiencing high tide .
Maldives in Pangkep South Sulawesi
foto: Disbudpar pangkep Pangkajene districts and islands (Pangkep) with a sea area of 17,000 km has vast archipelago in 3 districts is District Liukang Tupabbiring, Liukang Kalmas and Liukang Tangaya. Tupabbiring Liukang districts consist of 40 islands and 10 uninhabited island is a region with a number of islands and the distance more islands are generally closer to the coastal district is a cluster with a coastal districts Spermonde islands. Some areas of the outer islands, the distance is even closer to the NTT and Bali. Pangkep …
Ritual Mutual Cooperation for Lifting Home
Bugis people who live in South Sulawesi have a tradition of moving house very unique. For Bugis people, moving house means a house move to a new location, not just a new house that is in another location. Bugis traditional house is in the form of wooden house that easily carried and moved to another location. At the time of transfer is exactly we can see the culture of mutual help residents of the village who are now very rare.
Sacred Construction of Wooden Houses in South Sulawesi
In South Sulawesi there are four ethnic : Bugis , Makassar , Mandar and Toraja . Bugis , Makassar , and Mandar have similarities in culture and day-to- day way of life . Bugis has the largest population and inhabit most areas of South Sulawesi . Generally, home of the Bugis -shaped wooden house on stilts with a long rectangular pillars which bear high floor and roof . Construction of the home made off – pairs ( knock down ) so that it can be moved from one place to another . Bugis people looked at home not just a place to stay but also …
Giant Swing in Bugis Ritual
Four large bamboo stalks of bamboo trees kind of betung that have crossed the high tens of meters installed by bringing the two ends of each on the top. A bamboo then mounted transversely as a buffer rope swing from buffalo leather material that has been dried and plaited to form a rope . Then become a giant swing , which in Bugis land called TOJANG or Mattojang , which means swinging . Mattojang for traditional Bugis society , said to be part of a series of traditional ceremonies washing the heirlooms heritage. However, over the developm…
Little Paradise in Takabonerate Selayar
Takabonerate National Park located in South Sulawesi Takabonerate Selayar District is one of the most beautiful marine park in Indonesia. Takabonerate known to have the largest coral atoll in Asia , and the third largest in the world after Kwajalein Atoll and Suvadiva . Takabonerate is an island that offers an abundance of stunning views of the sea floor , such as the climbing wall contours , slope , and a flat seabed . Atolnya form a coral reef with various species of marine plants are very beautiful that as many as 261 species are kno…
