Yenni Amalia Putri

              One of the Traditional Games from Indonesia is ABC 5 Dasar. This game is usually played by more than 5 people. Besides fun, this game can also hone children’s intelligence. This is one of the fun and easy to play education games because it doesn’t need special tools or object to play it. To play it needs paper and pen or pencil. In each player’s paper are written categories such as name of people, animals, objects, fruits etc .                 Besides that each player donates his finger to determine what alphabet will be used as a benchmark. The rules to play is the players will say the word “abc 5 dasar” and the players put their finger as desired on the floor or table, then one of the players sorts the number of fingers in alphabetical order to determine what alphabet to base the words on the last finger. For example selected alphabet C each players must write the name of people, animals, fruits, objects beginning with the alphabet C.             To win t

The Toraja ethnic is one of the ethnic in Indonesia. This ethnic lives in the mountains of the northern part of South Sulawesi. The population is estimated to be around 1 million. The religion adhered to by the toraja etnic is mostly Christian. Famous for it’s mysticism, Toraja ethnic has one unique tradition that is still preserved namely is “Ma’nene” tradition, which is a ceremony to replace clothes the corpses of the ancestors. This tradition is used to introduce young members og the family to ancestors. This tradition is usually done every 3 years and is done in August. Ma’nene ceremonies can only be held after the harvest season which falls in August. The Toraja community believes that if the “Ma’nene” ceremonies is not carried out before the harvest period, then their fields will be damaged by the mice and caterpillars that come suddenly. Besides being famous for their traditional house “Tongkonan”, a prominent feature of the house “Tongkonan” is the buffalo hea