Tongkonan

In addition to building the colonial heritage, Indonesia also has a number of custom home with a unique shape or design. This building is not the work of a master architect of the modern era a myriad of theories. But rather the creation of a group of people who still love and respect for the traditions handed down by their ancestors. And Tongkonan, Tana Torja custom home communities in South Sulawesi, is one of them.

Tongkonan does have distinctive characteristics compared to other traditional house. The house is in the form of a wooden house on stilts. The roof is made of bamboo arrangement of fibers coated black and curved shape like a boat on my stomach, making this house is similar to the Tower House, home or Batak traditional Minang community. The wall is made of wood, also carved with various carving Toraja.

Another feature that is most prominent in Tongkonan is the head of buffalo along the beautiful curved horns that are arranged on a main bang in front of each house. The number of buffalo head that there can be different in each house. The more "ornament" is in there, the higher the degree of the family who lived in it. Therefore. Tongkonan also one tourist attraction Tator and attracted many photo enthusiasts.