Pinisi is a traditional sailing boat from Indonesia

Pinisi is a traditional sailing boat from Indonesia, who came from the tribe Bugis and Makassar in South Sulawesi village of Bira district rather than Bonto Maritime Bulukumba. Pinisi actually a screen name. These ships generally have two main masts and seven screens, three on the front end, two in front and two behind; generally used for the transport of goods between islands. Two main mast is based on two sentences creed and fruit tujuah screen is the sum of the surah Al-Fatihah. Pinisi is a ship that uses this type of display screen schooner with two poles with seven strands of the screen and also has a meaning that the ancestors of the Indonesian nation capable mengharungi seven great oceans of the world.

Pinisi timber ships have been used in Indonesia for several centuries ago, is expected to ship pinisi existed before the 1500s. According to the script I Lontarak Chronicle La Lagaligo in the 14th century, first made by Pinisi Sawerigading, Crown Prince Royal Luwu to sail to China had wanted to woo the Chinese princess named We Cudai.

Sawerigading succeeded to the country of China and memperisteri Puteri We Cudai. After a long stay in the country of China, Sawerigading kekampung back home by using Pinisinya to Luwu. Towards the entry Luwu waters and big waves buffeted the ship split Pinisi three stranded in the village of Ara, Tanah Lemo and Bira. Three villages are communities assemble the pieces of the ship into the boat which was later renamed Pinisi. People Ara is the maker of the hull, in Tana Lemo ship assembled and Bira people who designed the ship into the screen Pinisi and seventh born of the thinking of those Bira.

That said, this Pinisi name taken from the name of someone named Pinisi itself. Once when he sailed up the coast of Bira. He saw a barrage of ships around the ocean there, he was later reprimanded one of his captains the ship that uses a screen that still need to be improved. Since then the Bira thinking and designing the screen in such a way and ultimately shaped Pinisi screen that it is today. Top warning the person that the people Bira gave it the name Pinisi screen.