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Kota Parepare Sulawesi Selatan, 150 km dari kota Makassar dikenal memiliki hutan kota (jompie) yang luar biasa dan sampai saat ini seperti tidak dipahami keberadaannya, baik pejabat ataupun masyarakatnya sendiri. Dalam kawasan hutan Jompie banyak ditemukan berbagai jenis pohon dan tanaman langka yg jarang ada di Indonesia bahkan di dunia. Cuma dua kota di Indonesia yg memiliki hutan kota yg luas, yaitu Bogor dan PAREPARE.

Ironisnya, potensi hutan kota ini tidak dilirik sama sekali.... Padahal dalam sebuah pidato kenegaraan, Presiden RI, Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono sangat mewanti-wanti hutan Jompie ini agar di perhatikan baik-baik karena presiden ini ingin masyarakat Parepare sadar bahwa hutan jompie merupakan salah satu potensi yang mewakili pencitraan indonesia dalam pengelolaan lingkungan hijau GLOBAL.

Bersama dengan Hutan di Bantaeng, Hutan jompie ini juga merupakan salah satu kawasan hutan kota yang menyerupai penataan kota hijau seperti di Kanada, herannya, malah hutan pedesaan kabupaten Bantaeng yang lebih populer.

Bisa dianggap, pemerintah kota parepare selama ini minim ide pengembangan tentang lingkungan hijau perkotaan. Mereka tidak punya wawasan cemerlang untuk mengolah potensi yg sungguh luar biasa ini... Jika dikelola dgn pemahaman yg baik, maka Hutan Jompie ini dipastikan menjadi sumber pendapatan besar dan bisa mengangkat citra kota parepare yang selama ini jelas makin terpuruk diantara kabupaten kota lainnya yg ada di Sulsel. Satu hal yang perlu diketahui, kota Pare-pare mendapatkan piala Adipura dari kementerian lingkungan hidup karena hutan Jompie ini masih bisa terjaga kendati tidak dikelola dengan baik. Namun, kesuksesan penghijauan yang sudah diraih beberapa kali itu ternyata belum mampu membuka mata pemerintah setempat, apalagi masyarakatnya untuk mengembangkan potensi hutan kota ini.

Buffalo Market

Tha Dance of The king Soldiers

Tana Toraja is one of the counties located within the province of South Sulawesi capital in Makale . It is located about 330 KM north of the city of Makassar .
Traveled to Tana Toraja would not be complete without a visit here . Many are found all the elements of the traditional arts in the culture of Toraja , namely custom home Tongkonan , reeds or rice barns , cemeteries , and the making of handicrafts typical of Tana Toraja carving . The district capital is Makale have absolute craft process requires very high artistic ability and artistic.

 Sandeq is kind of outrigger sailboat with a sail that has long been used by Mandar fishermen or as a means of transportation between islands in West Sulawesi. The form is flat, with a width ranging from 1.5 to 2 meters long and 6-9 meters makes it more agile and faster than other sailboats. This boat is very famous as a maritime cultural heritage Society Mandar, West Sulawesi, Indonesia. Before the use of the motor (engine), sandeq transportation between islands become the most dominant reason than licah and fast, sandeq also can sail downwind, ie with zigzag sailing techniques (in the Mandar language referred to as "Makkarakkayi").

selling with sister (Losari Beach, Makassar)

Deliver pigs that have been baked in a ritual ceremony ( Tana Toraja)

In all parts of the world , many children are involved in domestic work for a wage or not in the house belonging to the third group or employer . Hidden from public outreach , they are somewhat vulnerable to exploitation . The ILO estimates that there are 2.6 million domestic workers in Indonesia , where 26 percent of them children under the age of 18 years . The majority of domestic workers are women , about 90 percent , with a low education level ; generally come from poor families from rural areas .

Agricultural land in Toraja is quite unique, from the hilly geography of mountains, terraced rice paddies terraced contours make it a priority. Toraja society in general have become accustomed to the natural conditions of the climb. Very different from the wetlands in South Sulawesi, which generally extend in the lowlands.
 
With the hilly terrain conditions , it is difficult to build irrigation canals , no technical irrigation . But that does not matter , capturing the rain water was carried out , nature has prepared everything .

Street Musician

Coconut Seller

Information on national television on Makassar , South Sulawesi lately Makasarese gives a rough image and scrappy . It's imposible sheer . Makassar society in general embraces the culture without further ado . This culture affects people's attitudes are relatively straightforward and " seem " less than friendly . However , the honesty of the people of the city are included in both categories . The attitude seems to characterize what it is that city people . Culture without further ado actually very important in social life and business .

In Bugis tradition, the role of women is not only used as a symbol of loveliness or household caregiver for her husband and her children. However, long way since the first narrated the epic La Galigo, Bugis Women already come to dominate the socio-cultural institutions and politics in Bugis kingdoms.
In the book History of Java (1817), Thomas Stanford Raffles noted amazed impression of the role of women in the Bugis society
“The women are held in more esteem than could be expected from the state of civilization in general, and undergo none of those severe hardships, privations or labours that restrict fecundity in other parts of the world”