Makassar people

Indigenous ethnic of Southern Sulawesi Ethnic group The native Makassar , Macassar , Makassarese , Makassan or Macassan (in Australian English) are one of the indigenous Sulawesi people, native to the southern Celebic peninsular regions (concentrated around the Makassar area) in Indonesia . The Makassar people are rich in culture and they are acknowledged for their traditional culinary and maritime knowledges, together with the Bugis , its closest related ethnic group. The Phinisi , a worldwide well-known boatbuilding of Southern Sulawesi-origin, a joint invention of Bugis-Makassar people, is internationally inscribed as the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity by the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO). The Makassar people speak various Makassaric languages , including Standard Makassar , as well as Standard Indonesian and Makassar Malay . The Makassar people are amongst the first native people who are endowed with the harvesting and processing knowledge of holothuroidea (sea cucumber, natively found between the Wallace and Weber line), and was spread to another regions beyond its native homeland throughout the Indonesian Archipelago to the Oceania (and some another regions of Asia–Pacific ) due to their seafaring activity (mostly departed from Makassar port in Makassar Strait ), their knowledge is better-known as trepanging (in Australian English) , rooted from the native Makasar word “ taripang ” ( lit. ' sea cucumber ' ). Furthermore, the knowledge in fauna sector is not an exception, the Makassar oil is one of it, a herbal oil extracted from their own Makassar ebony (mixed with another herbal ingredients), was famously used for haircare treatment amongst the Western Europeans. In several Oceanic countries, one of the ingredients for Makassar oil, the Cananga odorata , are still famously known as “Makassar” (but spelt in different orthographical rules of each respective country, such as Mokasoi in Fiji , Mohokoi in Tonga , Mosoʻoi in Samoa , etc.). Almost all Makassar trade activity was recorded as one of the important historical inter-native relationship and businesses of ancient times (especially with the Aboriginal Australians and several Oceanian natives). Nowadays, the Makassar diaspora could be found across regions beyond their native homeland in southern Sulawesi; in Indonesia itself, the Makassar diaspora could be found in several regions of the Nusa Tenggara islands, the Pangkajene islands , parts of Sangkarang and Kangean archipelagoes, the pa-Mekasan region of Madura , parts of Kalimantan island, and so on. Meanwhile outside of Indonesia, the diasporic Makassar community could be found in Insular Southeast Asia and its vicinity (such as Australia , Thailand , etc.), as well as some African countries (such as Mozambique in Eastern Africa and South Africa in Southern Africa). It is also believed that the Makassar people are the cradle of Madagascar people (with migration route began from Southern Sulawesi to Southern Kalimantan, next to Java around Sunda Strait , and straight to Madagascar ), with tons of similarity could be found between the two.