Bugis-Makassar Lontara Script in Suspected Prone to Traded

Lontara Codex community cultural heritage Bugis and Makassar in South Sulawesi, Indonesia prone to be traded by the irresponsible.

Ahmad Saransi, Head of Codex Statistics Agency National Archives of South Sulawesi Province, admitted last few months many of merchantability Lontara manuscript and our country is threatened.

Cultural threat Bugis-Makassar society comes from the greed of other countries, like Malaysia.

Malaysia does have similarities with Indonesian culture, even those ambitious enough to make Malaysia as a center of culture wither.

If the Bugis-Makassar society does not preserve and maintain the existence of the cultural history of ancient manuscripts, most of South Sulawesi is almost extinct. So civilization cultural life of South Sulawesi in the past are condemned to disappear.

Indonesian Cultural Foundation has ever built are Dutch citizens named "Matthess". It is one place where the culture of civilization in the past Sulawesi.

The place can be regarded as the cultural wellspring of civilization Sulawesi, because scientists and humanists considered invalid international conduct research without visiting the oldest foundations in eastern Indonesia that.

Lontara script associated with the past system of government, social and cultural life of the people of South Sulawesi.Lontara Bugis-Makassar is a sacred character for the classic bugis. He is due to the epic in galigo Lontara written using letters. Letter Lontara not only used by public Lontara bugis but letters are also used by the community and the community Makassar and Luwu in South Sulawesi, Indonesia.

The bugis poets poured his mind and heart on Lontara leaves and decorated with the letters arranged so beautiful that a nice word Lontara leaves above and the works were named I La Galigo.

National Archives Library of South Sulawesi, there are about 4300 manuscripts which are still stored in the form of micro-film roll, because the original is still stored in the Netherlands.