Macerra Manurung Ceremony,South Sulawesi,Indonesia

To express gratitude for the success of plant pertaniaan, Taulan village, subdistrict Cendana, Enrekang district, South Sulawesi, held a traditional party maccera Manurung. This traditional feast is only performed once in eight years, no wonder, if this event is held, many of which are Enrekang citizen who live out the village took time to go home only to follow the traditional procession.

Communities in this cool areas knew maccera Manurung ceremonies since hundreds of years ago, traditional ceremonies are led by local indigenous elders and place in several phases, beginning a procession that is beating the drum through the night that aims to raise the soil. Local community believe, the land is the core of the entire universe, so that citizens believe, this land must be awakened first. While the beating drum is a drum tradisioanal issued only when these ceremonies take place. The people who attend these ceremonies witnessed usually try to grab the wood falling drummers around the drum, people believe that the timber has a magical power to cure various diseases. Beating the old drum rituals that are considered sacred was done on Friday.

The next day a celebration to establish a citizen who was then doing a butcheringanimal buffalo, buffalo meats cooked by a number of women who attended the execution of the customary ritual, this buffalo meat in the meal will be the invited guests. The next ritual is Majjaga. In this event dedicated to dance is considered as a symbol of loyalty to the king and kingdom. The dancers are dominated by these men, dancing with bare-chested in the middle of a very cold weather.

The next ritual is the Liang wae, the water out from the center of the earth. They perform this ritual at the start with praying in a spring hole located in the middle of the forest reach the 1000 meter elevation above sea level. As they prayed, the water will be spilling out of their sockets. If the spring does not radiate the public generally in the districts Enrekang should alert the possibility of such a bad crop failure, or there are villagers who became insane.

Conversely, if the radiant spring, water will be a bone of contention. The nomads who have long left Enrekang, usually most eager to come out fighting over water from the fountain it. Arifuddin one from overseas residents Pijar Enrekang to say, every execution of the customary ritual is held maccera Manurung, he and his wife and children are always taking the time to attend, usually the father of two children bring home water from the fountain in the village Taulan. Because he believes that water can bring a blessing, "Water is usually out of the water source emanating at the time of execution of this traditional feast took place I believe to be a blessing or bring a saving provision for" Arif said.

End of the procession was the culmination of a series of traditional ceremonies is Maccera Manurung Mappeong, local residents believe giving offerings to the ancestors of this, given as an expression of gratitude for the sustenance of the community have been obtained for eight years. In this Mappeong procession in preparing several kinds of foods such as bananas, diamond, chicken egg, nut, betel leaf, rice is the sticky rice cooked in bamboo stems or local Lemmang knew her name. offerings are combined in one container with the Cover hibiscus leaves, then offerings are distributed to indigenous leaders who are descended from puang Kamummu.

Kamummu Puang which is the ancestor who often convey a special message to the tribes, before delivering the message of their ancestors, a machete which is the inheritance of this legacy Kamummu puang, washed with young coconut water by local indigenous leaders, said the machete hilt made of horn horse. and machetes this heritage is now a symbol Enrekang area, southern Sulawesi.

Parang heirloom that had been washed paraded around the house three times and in accompanied by Adhan, is represented as a symbol expel bad things that want to go into Taulan village, residents hoped the implementation of custom Maccera Manurung party can bring things that are good and overflow of a double provision from the mighty creator of masters of the universe.