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History of Manado A heavily
industrialized province, it has a higher living standard than most other
regions of Indonesia. In fact, this very wealthy province even feels like
a separate republic. The biggest copra production area of Indonesia (18,000
tons a month), everyone tends their plot of coconut palms, even teachers,
bankers and army colonels after hours. Also the most heavily Christianized
province of Indonesia. The style of North Celebes houses is unique to
each region; window sills and porch railings are lined with potted plants,
garden and yard vegetation is lavishly tended. history: Legend says that
the original Minahasan tribes were divided by the God Muntu Untu at a
huge boulder, seen today on the slopes of the Tonderukan. On intersections
of Manado you'll notice numerous statues of ferocious legendary warriors
who once guarded the city. Portugese traders came first, as early as 1563.
The Spainards arrived next, converting the population to Catholicism.
When Dutch planters started cultivating coffee here in 1827, they brought
in their wake overbearing Dutch reformist Protestants who began missionary
work. By 1860 the entire population had been re-converted. Minahasa soon
became known as the '12th Province of the Netherlands' because of the
closeness of its religious, military and economic ties with Holland. Most
aspects of Minahasan culture were obliterated by the Dutch. But once in
a while you see long white haired elders in the villages; also distinctive
ikatweaving draws upon their vanished megalithic culture.
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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 |
