Phinisi From Tanahberu | Bulukumba

At the southern tip of Sulawesi island, the locals built a nautical tradition for hundreds of years. The stories about the courage of the sailors Bugis, Makassar, Mandar, and Konjo has become a byword down to the distant country across the ocean.

The beauty and robustness in the face of malignancy boat ocean waves, gave birth to the stories of heroism are admirable.

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The story of the boat Phinisi from TanahBeru and sailors from Bira, Bulukumba, who drove it, now is not the familiar story. But not many realize the greatness of the sailors from the southern tip of Sulawesi, was built from a long tradition. Culture is based on the myth of the creation of the first boat by their ancestors.

Once Upon A Time in the TanahBeru mythology society, their ancestors to create a larger boat to sail the seas, carrying merchandise and fishing. When the first boat built, sailed boats in the middle of the sea. But an accident happened on the road. Waves and storm struck the boat and destroy it. Body parts in Hamlet Ara stranded boat, sails landed at Tanjung Bira and it landed in the Land Lemo.

The incident seemed to be a symbolic message to the village of Ara. They must beat the sea with the cooperation. Since the incident, the Ara specialize only as a maker of boats. People who acquire the remaining screens pleased boat specializing studying astrology and the signs of nature. While the Lemo-Lemo is memodali and businessmen who use these boats. The tradition of division of labor that has lasted for years that eventually led to the creation of a traditional wooden boat called Phinisi.

Now the mystical beliefs of the ancient mythology was still thick in every process of making Phinisi. Beginning with a small ritual, boat Phinisi made after cutting through the ceremony in full. The ceremony was led by a handler boat called Panrita Lopi.

Various offerings into the conditions that should not be left in this ceremony as all snacks should taste sweet and a white rooster is still healthy. Snacks cause of the desire for boat owners will bring in high profits. A little blood from white cock attached to a keel boat. The ritual as a symbol of hope for there was no blood spilled on the boat that will be created.

Then, the head of the carpenters cut both ends of the hull and submit to the leader of boat building. Pieces of the front end of the keel is discharged to the sea as a sign for the boat can be fused with the waves on the ocean. Being cut back on waste hull ashore to remind boat at sea for as far as he or she must return safely to the mainland. In the end, Panrita Lopi peal prayers before the Creator. 

Internationally, new Phinisi boats last known since 1906. The boat is the most modern form of traditional boat Bugis-Makassar people who have undergone a long evolutionary process. The ship was built as a sailing boat with two poles and seven to eight strands of the screen. In general these are small boats with a carrying capacity of between 20 to 30 tons and length between 10 to 15 meters. Almost the entire boat building done with simple techniques and using the engine power is very minimal.

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One boat was made by five to seven artisans who work from the beginning until the boat released into the sea. A foreman regulate the division of tasks. He will determine in detail the basic measures of boats and boat based on the desires of the form.

 

Simplicity in the process of making visible to Phinisi drawn to the sea. With six people involved in the manufacture of builders, boat driven slowly. When this is the happiest moment of the boatmen and their owners. Launching a boat into the sea as a sign of all the work is finished and ready for a new Phinisi widely across the sea