Critical Reading and Writing 2006

Makassar is my lovely hometown

Makassar is my hometown, I was born and grow up in there.Makassar is capital of South Sulawesi,and it also the trade center in Sulawesi because of it strategical position.Makassar has many kind of cultures,customs,languages,and races.That what makes Makassar be one of beautiful city in Indonesia.

Beginning in the sixteenth century, Makassar was the dominant trading/pao center of eastern Indonesia, and soon became one of the largest cities in island Southeast Asia. The Makassarese kings maintained a strict policy of free trade, insisting on the right of any visitor to do business in the city, and rejecting the attempts of the Dutch to establish a monopoly over the city. Further, tolerant religious attitudes meant that even as Islam became the dominant faith in the region, Christians and others were still able to trade in the city. With these attractions, Makassar was a key center for Malays working in the Spice Islands trade, as well as a valuable base for EuropeanArab traders from much further afield. The importance of Makassar declined as the Dutch became more powerful in the region, and were better able to enforce the monopoly over the spice trade that they desired. In 1667 the Dutch, allied with the Bugis prince Arung Palakka, invaded and captured Makassar, eliminating its role as an independent trading center.

Now,Makassar became a modern city,i hope my hometown will be more peace and beautiful than today,and be the best place in tho world.

posted by Andhika Uzumaki @ 10/02/2006 02:50:00 PM