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Malili On the N.E. shore
of Teluk Bone. Merpati Airlines flies to Malili daily (about 1-1'h hours)
from Ujung Pandang, Rp17,750- a shuttle flight for the miners working
in the Malili area. Or take kapal motor from Palopo. Malili is the headquarters
of Inco Mining Company. Many Americans, Canadians and Australians work
here. There are sizable accommodations for 7500 employees at the Bechtel
Camp in Malili and in other satellite villages. The police are quite used
to Europeans wandering about Malili unless 'it' happens to wear a full
beard and a rucksack with a flute sticking out of it. stay and eat: If
you don't make a friend amongst the Inco people, stay in Losmen Satria,
Rp400, or in other cheap losmens on the waterfront close to the harbor.
Food is cheap; mie soup, Rp150. Or roll into the Inco camp and ask to
pay for breakfast. Good food and airconditioning; you won't believe their
cafeteria. vicinity of Malili: Ohe of the Bechtel barges takes a run out
to the islands around the mouth of the Malili River each Sunday, coral
reefs, beaches, skin-diving, etc. Book way in advance. The provincial capital
of Central Celebes. This small Bugis city has a pretty location on the
edge of a deep bay surrounded by rising green hills. Although it's only
7 km from the airport they'll try to ream you for Rp500 to get into the
city unless you can hitch an army jeep or a civilian; the highway is visible.
stay: Peng. Selamat, JI. Pasar Barat, Rp400, is for obvious reasons the
cheapest. More presentable are Peng. Latimodjong, JI. Gadjah Mada, Rp600;
and Peng. Kita, JI. Nyak Dien, Rp800. from Palu: Pertamina boats cross
over to Samarinda, East Kalimantan; bargain with the captain or possibly
ride for free. Kantor Bouraq, JI. Mawar, has flights daily to Balikpapan,
Rp15,850; to Banjarmasin, Rp29,350. Merpati operates flights to Poso twice
weekly. trips from Palu: From Besesu Station take a minibus as far as
Sirenja, 85 km north. Sirenja is also reachable by motorboat, prahu, or
walking from Wani Harbor. To Donggala, Rp250300 by minibus. Wani: From
Besesu Station it's a Rp250, 45 minute, and a 25 km ride to Wani Harbor.
A cheaper way to get to Wani is to take the kapal /ayar (sailboat) leaving
from Donggala across the bay each morning at 10 or 11 am, arriving in
Wani at 2 pm. Wani is a small (pop. 6000) picturesque town with just two
rumah makan; it takes only 10 minutes to walk through it. prahu-building:
Have a fathulled Bugis prahu built here for Rpl-2 million. Wani's carpenter
can finish the job in 2-3 months and will arrange for licences, etc. Since
there's no /osmen, the shipwrights will have a thatch hut built for you
to live in or else you can live as a payingboarder with a family. Bring
books to read and a radio to hear the news and music, you'll have lots
of time on your hands. Everybody remembers a couple of Aussies here because
they played the guitar the whole time. Most villagers speak Bahasa Indonesia
which you can even learn in the local school, or with private teachers
in exchange for English lessons. There are also shipwrights at Talise,
25 km from Wani; at Balaesong just south of Sabang to the north (can catch
a daily boat from Wani 4 hours to Balaesong). Also a carpenter in Donggala.
from Wani: There are daily motorboats to Sirenja, Rp3000, takes 12 hours.
Weekly boats to Samarinda, Rp3500-400, takes one day, one night; north
to Tolitoli there are boats twice monthly, Rp5000-5500; and to Pare Pare
once in awhile, Rp3500-4000. Sail from Wani by kapal /agar to Surabaya
in about 9 days.
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we must point out a very important distinction which the Balinese make between
two clearly separate groups of ancestors. The first of these groups consists
of the dead who are riot yet completely purified. This group is in turn subdivided
in pirata, those riot yet cremated, and pitara, those already cremated. The
former are still completely impure; the latter have been purified, but are still
considered as distinct, individual souls. The second group consists of the completely
purified ancestors who are considered as divine. Everything Bali Indonesia |
