Posts Tagged ‘Luwu’
Stretching around the “heart” of the island of Sulawesi, Luwu like a forgotten country. Long and fascinating history as lost without trace. Although the full history of the legendary, ironic is the right word to describe the condition or state of this region. In fact, not a bit of historians from both domestic and foreign states that once stood here in Sulawesi’s oldest monarchy, the Kingdom of Luwu. There are also saying that this kingdom emerged in the 8th century or the same age as the kingdom of Sriwijaya in South Sumatra.
In the era of Dutch colonialism in Sulawesi, Luwu did not fail to master. In this period, Luwu carrying any resistance-resistance. Luwu movement figures, among others: the army commanders who, together with Andi Tadda laskarnya in Ponjalae, Palopo coast in 1905 and Andi Jemma in April 1950 confirmed again kedudukaunya as Datu / Warrior Luwu. For his jasannya against the Indonesian independence struggle, Andi Jemma was awarded the Star Guerilla by President Soekarno, the first president in the republic. Read the rest of this entry »