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Pinisi is sailing ship traditional owned Indonesia, from bugis of South Sulawesi. this ship has two poles main screen and seven screen, the three in the front end, the two on the front, and two again in the back of the ship. seven strands screen has the meaning that the ancestors Indonesian nation can navigate the seven Ocean large in the world. pinisi or sometimes written phinisi for centuries has wading sea to the Malacca, Burma, Vietnam, and Australia.
People bugis are recognized expert to make the ship and is the sailors tough. ship pinisi has brought them to sail territories is much in the archipelago, and even many of them were subsequently settled in Java, Kalimantan, Sumatra, Papua, and Islands Nusa Tenggara. bugis not only a respected for experts fishing but also very feared as Pirates.
According to mythology public land beru in South Sulawesi, early shipbuilding pinisi is when their ancestors make a boat larger to navigate the Ocean. boat was about to be used to bring the merchandise, and also to catch fish. boat first completed and brought sailing navigate the sea. but the waves and storm threw boat and destroy it. organ boat stranded in Hamlet Fig, part of the screen in Cape bira, while the contents stranded on the ground lemo.
The event is considered as a message symbolic that the third place it should work together to conquer the Ocean. residents of the village of Fig specializes as maker boat. people bira master of science astrology and signs of nature. while people lemo be employers that provides capital boat building, and use it. tradition share the task lasts for many years and eventually they make a wooden boat traditional called pinisi.
From time to time, pinisi have been made in a variety of sizes with the traditional way. in the past, pinisi made it tends to smaller, but not rare ship pinisi sized long-30 - 40 meters, and even the occasional there is a size 50 meters (close to 165 feet on the deck) or greater.
Since the mid-19th century, has over 100 years of this ship made and used by the sailors bugis to take charge of 17.000 Islands in Indonesia. by utilizing monsoons seasonal, they sailing to the West for 6 months to then back to the East for the rest of the year.
Making pinisi quite unique, cutting Wood first do panrita lopi (expert or handler boat). then, wooden board in pairs individually formed the ship.
After half so, frame mounted in accordance with the form and arches Wood already installed. uniqueness of the other of making pinisi is they do not use the nails to put an agency ship to frame, but using the rest of Wood from the making of the ship.
There is also a ritual accompanying process shipbuilding pinisi. begins with cutting ceremony paid off (beam elongated in the bottom boat) led by panrita lopi.
Offerings the terms of ritual must also available, the form of snacks sweet and a Rooster White healthy. snacks sweet as a symbol that boat owners benefit that much. blood Rooster White applied to paid off the boat as a symbol of a hope so that no blood spilled on the boat that will be made.
Ceremony then followed by Foreman cut both ends of paid off and provide the pieces it to the leader of the manufacture of the boat. pieces end paid off front disposed to the sea as a symbol of the hope that boat can be integrated with the waves in the Ocean.
While the pieces end paid off the back disposed to land as a symbol that although the boat sailing much to the sea but will eventually come back to the welcome to the mainland. ceremony will be terminated with Echo prayers to the creator also conducted by panrita lopi.
Prices every ship pinisi determined by the size and shape of the ship, and material will be used. usually ships booked for cruise with larger size the price reaches billions of dollars. making of the crew pinisi needed period of time for one to two years with the workers or called mustard as much as 10. they led by the retainer or Foreman.
