Bugis Sabah Diiktiraf

 

SIRI ETNIK SABAH : BUKU TERBARU BUGIS SABAH

DI SABAH, masyarakat Bugis masih tidak diiktiraf sebagai Bumiputera, atau lebih tepat Bumiputera Islam Sabah. Jika di Semenanjung Malaysia, sama ada orang Bugis, Jawa, Banjar, Arab dan seumpamanya semuanya dikategori sebagai Melayu. Dan mereka dikategorikan juga sebagai Bumiputera.

YAB Perdana Menteri, DS Najib Tun Razak, adalah keturunan Bugis dari Wilayah Goa, Sulawesi Selatan. Apakah bezanya dengan keturunan Bugis dari Wilayah Goa juga yang kini sudah bermastautin beratus tahun di Sabah, tetapi masih tidak diiktiraf sebagai Bumiputera Sabah? Jika Kerajaan Negeri tidak hendak mengiktiraf masyarakat Bugis Sabah sebagai Bumiputera Sabah, apakah bermakna mereka juga mempersoalkan keturunan Bugis Perdana Menteri kita?

Rakyat Sedia Terima Presiden Bukan Jawa

 

Jusuf (kanan) bersama bekas Presiden Indonesia Megawati Sukarnoputri ketika menunjukkan dokumen Perjanjian Dua Tokoh yang ditandatangani pada Mac 2009.

Jakarta: Bekas naib presiden Indonesia, Jusuf Kalla, percaya rakyat negara itu bersedia melantik presiden yang bukan berketurunan Jawa, ketika latar belakang etnik ahli politik tidak begitu diberi perhatian pada peringkat kebangsaan.

Ketika ditemubual akhbar The Straits Times kelmarin, beliau berkata penduduk Jakarta menerima timbalan gabenor daripada etnik China, apabila melantik gabenor baru, Joko Widodo dan timbalannya, Basuki Tjahaja Purnama, tahun lalu.

Perspektif Barat Punca Bugis Digelar Lanun

Oleh: Dr Khoo Kay Kim

Dalam penulisan sejarah Asia Tenggara, sehingga akhir-akhir ini memang sarjana Barat yang mempeloporinya. Sarjana tempatan hanya mulai memberi cabaran pada 1950-an. Maka muncullah istilah ‘sejarah Euro-centric’ dan ‘sejarah Malaya-centric’ di negara ini. Tetapi sehingga kini masih ramai sarjana yang tidak jelas, apakah perbezaan asas di antara dua persepsi ini.

Apa yang tidak dapat diakui ialah penulisan sejarah rantau Gugusan Kepulauan Melayu itu mula diselenggarakan oleh orang Barat. Akibatnya apabila sejarah rantau ini mula dipelajari dalam dunia akademik, sumber digunakan kebanyakannya sumber Barat. Antara yang terkenal ialah tulisan Tome Pires, Suma Oriental, yang ditulis dalam bahasa Portugis. Orang Belanda juga banyak menulis mengenai rantau ini dan permusuhan di antara mereka dengan orang Bugis begitu nyata. Kedua-dua pihak cuba menguasai perdagangan di rantau ini.

Silat Sendeng (Malay Muay Thai)

The same as grandmaster of Silat Seni Gayong, Dato' Meor Abdul Rahman,  grandmaster of Silat Sendeng, Long Mamat also the descendants Bugis. Originally from Sulawesi, the wanderlust of the Bugis ensured that they were well-travelled throughout Nusantara and beyond, bringing with them their knowledge, their culture, and their combat arts. In Malaysia, among the more popular and recognizable of these is Seni Silat Sendeng.

Silat Sendeng founded by Allahyarham Long Mamat and expanded by Allahyarham Haji Hamid bin Haji Hamzah, named this silat by Seni Silat Sendeng Muar. First center under Allahyarham Haji Hamid is born at Sungai Mati, Muar, Johor Darul Takzim. After Allahyarham Haji Hamid past away on 19 May 1990, his younger brother, Allahyarham Haji Ismail bin Haji Hamzah was choosen to lead Seni Silat Sendeng and replaced as ‘Guru Utama’ (Grandmaster). On 11 July 1992, Seni Silat Sendeng Muar was register by the name ‘Pertubuhan Seni Silat Sendeng Malaysia’ with combining 7 branch of country like Johor, Melaka, Pahang, Perak, Kuala Lumpur, Selangor and Negeri Sembilan. Now, Pertubuhan Seni Silat Sendeng

Royal Bugis Warriors Across Malaysia and Nusantara

The culture of migration also prompted the Bugis-Makasar people in South Sulawesi to preserve pencak silat self-defence. The people belonging to this ethnic group are renowned for their penchant for sailing all over Indonesia and setting up their own community in other islands. As an integral part of people’s life, pencak silat self-defence is taken along and developed wherever they may be. Even in high sea, the crew train in pencak silat self-defence. No wonder, that in South Sulawesi, styles of pencak silat self-defence abound and everywhere masters can be found who give individual lessons in secret moves to their students. 

Meanwhile, modern styles of pencak silat olahraga can only be found in large cities, where schools of Javanese origin set up branches. Techniques of self-defence combined with inner powers are taught to male

The Pride To Be The Bugis

Bugis People - Makassar, South Sulawesi

The Bugis

Bugis people is one of Indonesian ethnic which are the inhabitant of South Sulawesi. This tribe is the biggest three after Javanese and Sundanese. Beside the indigenous who live in South Sulawesi, the immigrant of Minangkabau who wander from Sumatra to Sulawesi and the Malay people are being called as Bugis people. 

At present time, The Bugis is spread to all over Indonesia like Sulawesi Tenggara, Sulawesi Tengah, Papua, Kalimantan Timur, Kalimantan Selatan even to going abroad. Bugis people are the the most group who insist to spread the Islamic religion. 

The word Bugis is referred to the word To Ugi, means Bugis People. Formerly, it referred to the first King of Chinese Kingdom in Pammana who is La Sattumpugi, which now is the regency of Wajo. The people named themselves To Ugi or the people of La Sattumpugi.

On the following era, this people are divided and growth in some kingdoms. Then, east group developing their own culture, language, literacy and their own governmental. It is mention that the classic Bugis people are coming from Luwu, Bone, Wajo, Soppeng, Suppa, Sawitto, Sidenreng and Rappang. Those classic group are divided from the ancient kingdom that form during the development of Bugis people. The history mention that the kingdoms which growth during the early time and affected the Bugis was the era of Bone Kingdom, Makassar Kingdom, Soppeng Kingdom and Wajo Kingdom. Moreover, the era of the conflict among the royal emperor, the entrance of Islamic religion, Dutch colonialism and independence revolution. 

Bugis Religion

Doctrines

The Bugis or Buginese are one of the three major cultures of South Sulawesi (Sulawesi is also called Celebes). The others are the Makassarese and the Torajan. Bugis call themselves Ugi' or ToUgi' and speak a Western Austronesian language. The Bugis are considered one of the most devout Muslim groups in Indonesia, though they maintain many pre-Islamic elements in their religion.

The sacred epic La galigo gives an incomplete picture of pre-Islamic Bugis religion. A small group of non-Muslim Bugis still believe La galigo to be sacred. La galigo is an account of creation, a collection of princely rituals, and a manual of princely conduct. The princely rituals are performed by bissu, transvestite priests in charge of the royal regalia. Other rituals of daily life are carried out by sanro, popular practitioners, for new houses and boats, rites of passage, first-use rites, anniversaries, phases of the rice cycle, and at times of war, epidemic, and crop failure.

Allah is called Puang Allataala or Dewata Seuwae. Besides Allah, Bugis believe there are many other spiritual beings it is necessary to pay homage to if you wish them to intercede between humans and the remote supreme being. One of these spititual beings is Sawerigading, who is the Bugis national hero described in La galigo. However, there seems to have been a cult of Sawerigading that was more important to the bissu than the laity. Another cult of the bissu was for Dewata Mattanru' Kati, "the god with golden horns", also from La galigo.