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The Ancient Tana Toraja

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Tana Toraja Tana Toraja or Torajaland or Land of the Toraja or Tator, is a regency in South Sulawesi, Indonesia. The home of Toraja ethnic group people. The local government seat is in Makale, where the center of Toraja culture is in Rantepao. But now, Tana Toraja has been divided in two regencies that consist of Tana Toraja with capital is Makale and Toraja Utara with capital is Rantepao. Toraja tribe is the local inhabitan in Tana Toraja, which are live in the mountain areas and maintain a typical lifestyle…

Parepare City

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Parepare Parepare is one of regencies in South Sulawesi province, BJ. Habibie, the former Indonesian 3rd President is come from this city. In the early development of this current plateau, called Parepare, formerly was just a thicket of bushes which had many holes slightly sloping land, which grows wild irregularly, ranging from the northern (Cappa Edge) up to the route south city. As the time goes by, those bushes are now become the city of Parepare. At early begin, there was kingdoms which stands on Parepare, the kingdom of Suppa…

Makassar The Great

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Makassar Makassar or Macassar or sometimes Mangkasar, is a city in South Sulawesi, and also the capital of this province. From 1971 until 1999 officially known as Ujung Pandang. This city is such a big city with numbers or diversities, relating the tribes who live in Makassar, like Makassar people, Bugis, Toraja, Mandar, and Tionghoa. Since the 16th century, Makassar was the dominant trading center of eastern Indonesia, and later became one of the largest cities in Southeast Asia. Makassar kings was adopted a strict policy of free trade, in…

Buton Island And Its Civilization

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Buton Buton is an island and regency in Southeast Sulawesi, it is famous for the production of bitumen. The largest city on the island is Bau-Bau, which is also the capital of this regency. Buton included in the administrative area of Southeast Sulawesi Province. At early begin, the governmental of Buton regency was the part of the kingdom of Buton or Sultanate of Buton. Some areas was in the island of Muna, little part in Sulawesi island, and some islands in the southern part in Buton island. Now with the…

Tolaki People

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Tolaki People Kendari city inhabited by several ethnic groups, one of which is Tolaki tribes. This is an indigenous tribe in mainland Southeast Sulawesi island after the tribe Muna in Muna island and Buton tribe from the island of Buton. Around the 10th century, the mainland of Southeast Sulawesi had two great kingdoms of the royal Konawe (Konawe region) and the Kingdom Mekongga (Kolaka Region). In general, these two allied kingdom are the same and it known as tribes Tolaki. In the history of the Kingdom Konawe, which based in…

The City Of Kendari

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Kendari Kendari is a city in Indonesia, and also the capital city in Southeast Sulawesi. According to the history, the inventor, author and creator of the first map of Kendari was Vosmaer (Dutch nationality) in 1831. On May 9, 1832 Vosmaer built a king palace for Tolaki Tribe called Tebau around the port of Kendari, and each dated May 9 at the time and iat present time celebrated as the anniversary of Kendari. In the Dutch colonial era Kendari was the capital of Kewedanan and the capital of Laiwoi Onder…

Welcome Aboard To Tolitoli

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Tolitoli Toli-Toli or Tolitoli regency is one of regencies in Central Sulawesi. The capital city is located in Tolitoli city. Under the Law no. 51 In 1999 this area is divided into two districts; Tolitoli as the parent district, and Buol District as a result of splitting the district. According to the folk legend, the name Tolitoli comes from the word Totolu, which means Three. Tolitoli nation comes from three heaven men who incarnates to earth through Olisan Bulan (Golden Bamboo), Bumbung Lanjat (Langsat Peak Tree), and Ue Saka (A…

The Exotic Palu And The Kaili

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Palu City Palu is a city and also the capital city of Central Sulawesi province. Palu is divided into 4 Sub-district and 43 Kelurahan or the smaller area, it officially divided into West Palu, East Palu, North and South Palu. The most inhabitant who live in Palu is the indigenous of Kaili People, and some of minor ethnics like Bugis, Sangir, Makassar, Banjar, or Javanese. Kaili tribe inhabiting hereditary Palu valley area, Parigi, Tomini Bay, and coastal Tojo, Ampana, and Poso. To state “the Kaili” it mentioned in the Kaili…

Uniquely Poso

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Poso Poso is one of regencies in Central Sulawesi. At early begin, Poso was under the authority of the Government of the Kings of Poso; King Napu, King Mori, King Tojo, King Una Una, and King Bungku that one has nothing to do with each other. The sixth empire was under the influence of the three kingdoms, namely: Southern Region is obey to the King Luwu based in Palopo, while the Northern Territory under the influence of King Sigi which based in Sigi (Donggala Region), and a special area of…

The Beauty Of Tomohon

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Tomohon Tomohon is a city on Sulawesi in Indonesia. It is a new city in the province of North Sulawesi Initially, Tomohon was a part of the Minahasa regency in North Sulawesi. Tomohon, since the first early time has been written in recent history. One of them contained in the ethnographic work of Rev. N. Graafland that when, on January 14, 1864 aboard the Queen Elisabeth ship, he wrote about a country named Tomohon which he visited in the years around 1850. The development of civilization and the development and…