the history of bugis
The history of bugis
The Buginese people
are an ethnic group - the most numerous of the three major linguistic and
ethnic groups of South Sulawesi, in the southwestern province of Sulawesi,
third largest island of Indonesia.
The Austronesian ancestors of the Buginese
people settled on Sulawesi around 2500 B.C.E. There is "historical
linguistic evidence of some late Holocene immigration of Austronesian speakers
to South Sulawesi from Taiwan" - which means that the Buginese have
"possible ultimate ancestry in South China", and that as a result of
this immigration, "there was an infusion of an exogenous population from
China or Taiwan.
Migration from South
China by some of the paternal ancestors of the Buginese is also supported by
studies of Human Y-chromosome DNA haplogroups. The Bugis in 1605 converted to
Islam from Animism.
Some Buginese have
retain their pre-Islamic belief called Tolotang, and some Bugis converted to
Christianity by means of marriage; but they have remained a minority.
The Bugis are a people who first came to the Malay peninsula from the island of Sulawesi (formerly Celebes), Indonesia's 3rd largest island. It was in the southwest peninsula of Sulawesi that the ancestors of the present-day Bugis settled, probably in the mid-to-late 2nd millennium BC. The Bugis do not refer to themselves as "Bugis" (an exonym derived from an older form of the name) but instead called themselves To Ugi or Ugi. In historical European literature, the Bugis have a reputation for being fierce, war-like, and industrious, placing great importance to honour, status, and rank.
TUN ABDUL RAZAK IS A BUGIS MALAY
