“The Pearl of Spermonde Islands” Kapoposang National Marine Park, South Sulawesi-Indonesia may not be as well-known as other celebrated diving resorts, like Bunaken of North Sulawesi or Raja Ampat in Papua, but it is equally beautiful and offers an abundance of unexplored marine life. Kapoposang is one of the largest of the Spermonde Islands, around [...]

Fort Rotterdam was a Dutch fort built in Makassar on the island of Sulawesi in Indonesia during the 1670s. It was originally known as Ujung Pandang, named after the screwpine pandanus pal which grew in the region and was used for making mats. The fort became a center of Dutch colonial power in Sulawesi during [...]

Taka Bonerate National Park has the third largest coral atol in the world after the Kwajifein the Marshal Islands and Islands Suvadiva in Moldiva. Atol knowledgeable about 220,000 hectares, with a coral reef flat area is 500 km ². Topographic area is very unique and interesting, where atoll group consisting of islands and coral reef [...]

KAJANG TRIBE” THE BLACK COMMUNITY “ Kajang situated about 58 km north-west from Bira beach, Kajang is a sub-district from Bulukumba regency, the interest point in Tana-Toa village where live the leather of Pra-islamic called:”Amma-Toa’”.The village covering the forest conservation area according to the teaching of the;Tana-Toa,every houses inside built in natural material from plant [...]

The Toraja are an ethnic group indigenous to a mountainous region of South Sulawesi, Indonesia. Their population is approximately 650,000, of which 450,000 still live in the regency of Tana Toraja (“Land of Toraja”).[1] Most of the population is Christian, and others are Muslim or have local animist beliefs known as aluk (“the way”). The [...]

Makassar, (Makassarese language: sometimes spelled Macassar, Mangkasar) is the provincial capital of South Sulawesi, Indonesia, and the largest city on Sulawesi Island. From 1971 to 1999, the city was formally named Ujung Pandang, after a precolonial fort in the city, and the two names are often used interchangeably. The port city is located at 5°8?S [...]