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Mamuju Traditional House

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Traditional House Mamuju is ideal used as a museum and tourist information center for foreign tourists, because it is a cultural hallmark. Mamuju is an old kingdom that has traditional and cultural diversity. The condition is quite awake to the present. Therefore, he believes, if professionally managed natural beauty and customs have appeal as a tourist destination in Indonesia. The plan the Department of Tourism and Culture Mamuju utilize custom home as a place to store and display objects of cultural Mamuju. In addition, the museum is also equipped with…

The Torajan And The Way They Exist

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Toraja People Toraja people are the indigenous people who live in highland of South Sulawesi, Indonesia. The word Toraja comes from the Bugis language’s to riaja, meaning “people of the uplands” Befor the 20th Cntury, the Torajan was live in autonomous villages, where they practiced animism believe and was being untouched by outside world. During the early 1900s, a Dutch missionaries worked to convert Torajan highlander to Christianity. Since then, Tana Toraja was officially opened to the outside world, formerly in 1970, and became an icon of tourism in Indonesia.…

Enchanting Toraja on South Sulawesi

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South Sulawesi South Sulawesi is one of Indonesia Provinces that lies on Sulawesi Island. Makassar is the capital of this province that was called as Ujung Pandang. The local inhabitant that stay in South Sulawesi is dominated by Bugis and Makassar people, but Toraja ethnic is the indigenous ethnic people from South Sulawesi. Islam is the religion that most people in South Sulawesi hold, except in Toraja that mostly have Christian as their religion or they still have their animist belief known as Aluk, meaning “the way”. The Indonesian government…