Bugis

Bugis was being ethnic group of South Sulawesi since its coming on 15th century. Buginese worked on administrator, trader, and fisher along Gowa kingdom governed. Then they acculturated being Bugis people. Now Buginese spread to the entire of Indonesia until Malaysia and Singapore. Further this tribe developed their own system started from culture, languages, script, and government.

They built Luwu kingdom that regarded as the oldest with the Cina kingdom, Mario, and Siang kingdom. Cina kingdom pointed to the past kingdom ever stood on this island. Bugis boats were often seen all over the area known today as the Indonesian archipelago, from Singapore to New Guinea and from southern Philippines to north-western Australia, and they even sailed across the Indian Ocean to Madagascar.

Bugis being different to the other ethnic groups while they like traveled along parts of Indonesia even our neighbor countries like Australia and Malaysia. They left Bugis villages or at least Bugis communities in the regions they visited. They believed if their ancestor were origin people who descend (manurung) from “upper world” or rising from the “underworld” to bring norm and social rule to the earth. Bugis people contributed to the biggest literature in the world. It included in La Galigo or sure’ galigo told about 9,000 pages of noble genealogy, kingdom area, diary, and summary of local custom (ade’). It also summarizing past culture in Lontara. La Galigo’s figures were Sawerigading, We’ Opu Sengngeng (Sawerigading’s mother), We’ Tenriabeng (We’ Cudai mother), We’ Cudai (Sawerigading wife), and La Galigo (Sawerigading and We’ Cudai son).

It’s all about Bugis people before Islam period. Islam influenced strongly in the life of Bugis until now. Bugis people modern adapted Syafi’i mazhab ideology and their custom as long as it did not against Islamic Shari’a. About 95% of them were being Moslem while the rest communities called Tolotang still holding their origin belief. They lived in Amparita, Sidenreng Rappang Regency.

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