Buginese people
The Buginese (, Lontara script: ; Serang script: ; ), or simply Bugis, are an Austronesian ethnic group who are the most numerous of the three major linguistic and ethnic groups of South Sulawesi (the others being Makassarese and Torajan), in the south-western province of Sulawesi, third-largest island of Indonesia. The Bugis converted from animism to Islam in 1605. A small minority adhere to Christianity and a pre-Islamic indigenous belief called Tolotang.
Key facts
- Ethnic group.group
- Buginese/Bugis people
- Ethnic group.image
- IMG-20190222-WA0014.jpg
- Ethnic group.caption
- A couple walking under a ''Lellu' '' (traditional folding canopy) at their wedding
- Ethnic group.total
- 7 million
- Ethnic group.total_year
- 2010 census
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- Ethnic group.pop1
- 6,359,700
- Ethnic group.pop2
- 3,618,683
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- ''''''
- Ethnic group.pop3
- 735,819
- Ethnic group.region4
- ''''''
- Ethnic group.pop4
- 496,432
Article
32 sectionsContents
- Etymology
- Origins and antecedents
- Toalean{{snd}}Pre-Austronesian South Sulawesi
- The arrival of Austronesians
- Tana Ogi{{snd}}Land of the Bugis
- History
- Early society
- The growth of Bugis kingdoms
- Emergence of new political strengths over the peninsula
- Bugis-Makassar society in the 16th century
- Early attempts to Christianize the Bugis states
- Quest for prestige, influence and powers over the peninsula
- The Islamisation of Bugis-Makassar-Mandar
- The twilight of dominance
- A new golden age
- Culture
- Language and dialects
- Philosophy
- Traditional script
- Folklore and literary traditions
- Dress, textiles and weaving traditions
- Culinary traditions
- Weaponry and military traditions
- Traditional architecture
- Maritime, mercantile and migratory traditions
- Rice and agrarian traditions
- Festivals, celebrations and religious traditions
- Musical traditions and performing arts
- See also
- Notes
- References
- Bibliography
The Buginese (, Lontara script: ; Serang script: ; ), or simply Bugis, are an Austronesian ethnic group who are the most numerous of the three major linguistic and ethnic groups of South Sulawesi (the others being Makassarese and Torajan), in the south-western province of Sulawesi, third-largest island of Indonesia. The Bugis converted from animism to Islam in 1605. A small minority adhere to Christianity and a pre-Islamic indigenous belief called Tolotang.
The Bugis, whose population numbers around six million and constitutes less than 2.5% of the Indonesian population, are influential in the politics of the country, and historically influential on the Malay Peninsula, Sumatra, Borneo, Lesser Sunda Islands and other parts of the archipelago where they have migrated en masse, starting in the late seventeenth century. The third president of Indonesia, B. J. Habibie, and a former vice president of Indonesia, Jusuf Kalla, are of Bugis descent. In Malaysia, the reigning Yang di-Pertuan Agong (King of Malaysia), Sultan Ibrahim and eighth prime minister, Muhyiddin Yassin, have Bugis ancestry.