Funeral - Toraja

Funeral 

In Toraja society, funerals are the most important rituals and expensive. The more wealthy and powerful person, then the cost of funeral services will be more expensive. In aluk religion, only the noble families who are entitled to hold a large funeral party. Feast of the funeral of a nobleman is usually attended by thousands of people and lasted for several days. A place called rante funeral procession is usually prepared in a broad meadow, other than as a place of mourners in attendance, as well as a rice barn, and various other burial devices made by the family of the deceased. Flute music, singing, song and poetry, weeping and wailing is an expression of grief by the Toraja but all was not applicable to funerals of children, the poor, and low class people.

A funeral is sometimes just held after weeks, months, even years since the death in question, with the aim that the family can collect enough money to cover funeral expenses. Toraja Tribe believes that death is not something that comes with a sudden but is a gradual process towards Puya (world spirit, or afterlife). In times of waiting, the corpse was wrapped with several pieces of cloth and kept under tongkonan. Spirits of the dead believed to remain in the village until the funeral ceremony is completed, after which the soul will travel to Puya.

Another part of the cemetery is the buffalo sacrifice. The more powerful person, the more buffalo are slaughtered. Slaughter is done by using a machete. Buffalo carcass, including head, lined up in the desert, waiting for his owner, who was in the "time asleep". Toraja Tribe believes that the spirits need a buffalo to make the trip and will more quickly reach Puya if there is a lot of buffalo. Buffalo slaughter of tens and hundreds of pigs is the culmination of a funeral which lacks the music and dance that captures the young blood that spurt with a long bamboo. Some meat is given to the guests and noted because it will be considered as debt on the family of the deceased.

There are three ways a funeral: The coffin can be stored in the cave, or in a tomb carved stone, or hanging on the cliff. Rich people are sometimes buried in a tomb carved stone. The tomb is usually expensive and time it was created around a few months. In some areas, stone caves used to store the bodies of all family members. Wood sculpture called tau tau is usually placed in the cave and faced the death luar.Peti baby or child with a rope hanging on the cliff side. Ropes are usually lasted for a year before the rot and make the casket fell.  

Tongkonan

Tongkonan is the traditional Toraja house that stood on the pile of wood and decorated with carvings of red, black, and yellow. The word "tongkonan" is derived from the Toraja language tongkon
Tongkonan is central to the social life of the Toraja. Rituals associated with tongkonan very important in the spiritual life of the Toraja therefore all family members are required to participate because Tongkonan melambangan their relationship with their ancestors. According to folklore Toraja, tongkonan first constructed in heaven with four poles. When the Toraja ancestor came down to earth, he mimics the house and held a big ceremony.
Tongkonan development work is tiring and is usually done with the help of a large family. There are three types of tongkonan. Tongkonan layuk is a place of supreme power, which is used as central "government". Tongkonan pekamberan belongs to a family member who has a certain authority in local customs and traditions while family members usually live in tongkonan stone. The exclusion of the nobility of tongkonan decreases the number of ordinary people seeking gainful employment in other areas in Indonesia. After gaining enough money, ordinary people were able to build large tongkonan. Woodcut

Tana Toraja

District is a district of Tana Toraja in South Sulawesi Province, Indonesia. The capital of this district is Makale. Before the expansion, the district has an area of 1990 km ² and a population of 248,607 inhabitants (2007).
Toraja tribe who inhabit the mountain areas and maintain a distinctive lifestyle and still show the original Austronesian lifestyle and culture are similar to Nias. This area is one tourist attraction in South Sulawesi.

Sightseeing

Tana Toraja is one of the Indonesian tourist attraction, inhabited by a tribe who inhabit the mountains of Toraja and maintaining a distinctive lifestyle and still show the original Austronesian lifestyle and culture are similar to Nias. This area is one tourist attraction in South Sulawesi.
Pallawa
Tongkonan Pallawa is one tongkonan or traditional house that very interesting and were among the bamboo trees on the hilltop. Tongkonan is decorated with a number of buffalo horn that is attached at the front of traditional house. Located about 12 km to the north of Rantepao.
Londa
Londa is the steep rocks on the side of a typical tomb Tana Toraja. One was located on high ground from the hill with a cave in which the corpse crates are set according to the family line, the other one left open hillside views overlooking the green expanse. Located about 5 km to the south of Rantepao.
Ke'te trouble
The object of this charming village of Tongkonan, rice barns and buildings in the surrounding megaliths. About 100 yards behind this village there is a cliff with the grave cemetery site dependent and tau-tau in a given building stone fence. Tau-tau shows the daily appearance of the owner. This village is also known as carving skills possessed by its inhabitants as well as a great place to shop for souvenirs. Located about 4 km from southeast Rantepao.
Stone Tumonga
In this area you can find about 56 stone menhirs in a loop with 4 trees in the middle. Most stone menhir has a height of about 2-3 meters. From here you can see the beauty of Rantepao and surrounding valleys. Located in Sesean area with an altitude of 1300 Meters above sea level.
Lemo
This place is often referred to as the home of the spirits. In the cemetery you can see the corpses Lemo yanng stored in the open air, amid the steep rocks. This cemetery is the combination of death, art and ritual. At certain times clothing from the bodies will be replaced with a ceremony Ma 'Nene. 

 

Enrekang

ENREKANG, - Earth Massenrempulu not only known as an area agropolitan (producer of vegetables). But it is also an area that has a million tourist attraction that is very unique and interesting. Starting from the waterfalls, caves, and several historic sites against colonialism before Indonesia's independence.
One of the unique scenery that might step in this world, for example, views Buttu Kabobong. Buttu landscape Kabobong located in the Village District Bambapuang Anggeraja Enrekang, is only 16 km from the city Enrekang. Buttu Kabobong is located in the north towards Tanah Toraja district, so that not just the tourists who enjoy, but also every person who crossed the road axis Enrekang-Toraja, would feel incredibly unique.
Buttu in the Indonesian language means Mountain and Kabobong as a vital tool of women, so that Buttu Landscape Landscape Kabobong sometimes called Mount Mem. Bentukknya too, like a vital tool of women. The sight of this unique, has its own history. (Deddy)

Kodingareng Lompo Island

Sunset From Kodingareng Lompo

Lompo Kodingareng Island is one of the exotic attractions that often visit people in Makassar. The population in this island, about 4170 people, with 90 percent of livelihood as a fisherman, and the remaining 9 percent pa'balong other businesses.

But the east side there are 2 pieces of the adjacent pier, the wooden jetty for boat motors (regular) and Speed Boat. For facilities on the island, the residents use electricity generator that operates for 12 hours. And on this island there are also 2 pieces of elementary school, 1 kindergarten, religious facilities: 2 pieces and 2 pieces musalla mosque, with health facilities in the form of a fruit posyandu aids, there are also the village drug post (POD) through the NGO Plan and there is a fruit of international football field.

Snorkling in kodingareng keke

Waters of the East, North and South has a depth of 20 meters over a distance of between approximately 0.2 miles while the waters adjacent to the West at a distance of approximately 4.5 miles from the coast has a depth of 20 meters. As for the view under the island we can see the scenery, such as: bulubabi, jellyfish, crabs, sea stars, some fish species, such as: beseng-beseng giru, Leto, Leto, cepa, belawas (a type baronang).

The House that you can rent

The island is included in the Village Kodingareng, District Ujung Tanah, Kota Makassar, and is 15 km from Makassar, with an area of 14 Ha. To reach this island of Makassar, regular transportation available at a cost of Rp. 6.000, - per passenger each way by using a motor boat. There is also a chartered motor boat (lifeboat) 40 PK, at a cost of 400,000. [Wlmn / yd]

Samalona Island

Samalona Island

Samalona is a small island in the Strait of Makassar, precisely on the southwest coast of western South Sulawesi. Administratively, this island including the city of Makassar, South Sulawesi. Position more precisely located on the west district Wajo, Makassar, is approximately 2 km and can be seen clearly from these districts.
To reach this island could use a fishing boat (boat with outboard engine) and the travel takes no more than 0.5 hours. On this island stands a lighthouse that is used as a sign of land boundary for big ships.

Samalona Island Snorkling Veiw

Samalona are islands that can be seen clearly from the Fort Rotterdam in the area Keling - Makassar. Mandalika only 500 meters from the edge of the cliff fortress Fort Rotterdam.

West Side of Samalona Island

Kayangan Island

Pulau Kayangan Taken From Speed Boat

Kayangan Island is a small island of white sand area of about 1 ha and administratively included in the Village District Ivory Bulo Ujung Pandang, South Sulawesi city of Makassar. Its location is ± 0.8 km from Makassar City, not far from the Port and Soekarno-Hatta Makassar Fort Rotterdam by the Dutch landscape in which there Lagaligo Museum, or can be taken 15 minutes away by boat ride 36 PK exclusively reserved for visitors. The island was formerly called Marrouw or Meraux.

Kaya Island has several facilities such as lodging, resorts / lodging, entertainment, restaurants, multi-purpose building, a playground for children, sport facilities, and bridge fishing. In other parts there are a number of aquarium which houses a wide variety of marine water ornamental fish. The attraction: Swimming, panoramic sunset (sunset), water sports, music & performances, children's games, an aquarium.

  
Used Boat From Popsa front of Fort Roterdam.

Popsa

Port Paotere

Bugis, Makassar, and Mandar renowned as a sailor. Their sailboat since hundreds of years ago, has sailed to Madagascar near Africa, to Australia, and several small islands in the Pacific ocean. They were mighty sailors, both times of war or in peacetime.

 Compromising Positions

Paotere is a boat harbor, located in District Ujung Tanah, Makassar, South Sulawesi. Port, a distance of ± 5 km (± 30 minutes) from the center of Makassar is one of the ports doeloe tempo folk heritage that still survive and is testament to the Kingdom of Gowa-Tallo heritage since the 14th century when the dispatcher about 200 boat fleet Phinisi to Malacca.
Port Paotere currently still used as a port of the boats and people like Phinisi Lambo and also became the center of commercial fishing, which can be seen lined up along the road at the port of stores that sell various kinds of dried fish, fishing equipment, as well as several seafood restaurants.

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Tourism potential of south sulawesi, Makassar interesting sights:
Fortress Edge of view (Fort Rotterdam),

Fort Rotterdam is a fortress of Gowa Kingdom Tallo. The location of the fort was located on the edge of the west coast of Makassar, South Sulawesi.

The fort was built in 1545 by the 9th King of Gowa who named I manrigau Daeng Bonto Karaeng Lakiung Tumapa'risi'kallona. Initially the fort was made of clay, but in the reign of King of Gowa to the 14th Sultan Alauddin construction of the fort was changed to rock rock originating form karst mountains in the Maros region. fort rotterdam is shaped lika a Turtle who wanted to crawl into the ocean. In terms of shape is very clear philosophy of the Kingdom of Gowa, that turtles can live on land and at sea. So even with the kingdom of Gowa who triumphed on land and at sea.

The original name of this fort is Fort Ujung Pandang, commonly also Gowa-Makassar people call this castle known as Castle Panyyua which is the headquarters of Gowa Kingdom frog army. Kingdom of Gowa Tallo Bungayya finally signed an agreement in which one of the article requires that the Kingdom of Gowa to submit this to the Dutch fort. When the Dutch occupied the fort, the name was changed to Fort Rotterdam. Comelis Speelman deliberately chose the name Fort Rotterdam in memory of his homeland in the Nehterlands. The fort was later used by the Dutch as a central storage of spices in eastern Indonesia.

In the complex there now Ujung Pandang Fort Museum La Galigo in which there are many references on the history of greatness Makassar (Gowa Tallo) and other areas in south Sulawesi. Most of the buildings of this fort is still intact and become one tourist attraction in the city of Makassar.

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History Of South Sulawesi "Celebes"

"Celebes" Makassar City

Sulawesi is known as celebes is a beautiful island with an area of picturesque 227 thousand square kilometers of land smaller than the combined mainland England and Scotland, like a flower looks like a peninsula orchid with a long and flat peninsula.

There is no point of land that more than 90 km from the coas. making the island's long coastline has mostly mountainous land appear. kornbinasi of the two faces so that spread a variety of views really good on the beach as well as at regional geographic. strait sulawesi(makassar), known as the boundary of the wallace line, tells of two different unit leaves wildlife, namely the eastern and western Indonesia. species of flora and fauna of this land are specific such as ebony, pigs, deer and birds of the colorful butung maleo with big eggs. determination of japan by the year of period silarn the oldest found in caves near the limestone hills near maros, about 30 km north-east and Makassar, the capital of south sulawesi province.the old cultural layer of peeble and flake stone tools have been collected from the river terrace in the valley walanae, among soppeng and sengkan, including the bones of agiant pig and the elephants that have been extinct. the golden spice trade, the century 15th to 19th, south gate serves as the door to the island of maluku, spice producing lands. kingdong of gowa and bone mighty play an important role in history seemed the days past. people of eastern Indonesia south sulawesi consists of four main tribes. Toraja tribe known to have specific cultural, religious nuanced look at deart ceremonies, traditional houses with curved roofs, carving the beautiful and natural color. ethnic groups Makassar, bugis and mandar well known as a sailor patriotic war and the days the days of peace. with its traditional sailboat acroos the sea islands of Indonesia to the north of Australia, some island in the pacific ocean until to the Africa. Geographical backgroud, prehistory and history of South Sulawesi has spawned an interesting cultural element. One can observe, enjoy the uniqueness of its culture, including the ceremonies, dances, carving, weaning beautiful woven from cotton and silk yarn materials and tropical scenery is amazing.