Kolintang in the Minahasan community is used to accompany traditional ceremonies, dance, singing, and music.

Makasiga with wood carving skills managed to find the musical instrument that is the forerunner of kolintang.

The use of resonator boxes began to be used since the arrival of Prince Diponegoro and his followers who brought gamelan to Minahasa to undergo exile in 1830.

The use of kolintang musical instruments is related to traditional beliefs of the Minahasa people, such as in ceremonies for worshiping ancestral spirits.

[6] Along with the arrival of Christianity to the Minahasa land, rituals of worship of animism and dynamism began to be abandoned.

The basic tone is still limited to three keys (naturel, 1 mole, and 1 crus), the pitch has expanded to four and a half octaves from F to C. The development of the kolintang musical instrument is still ongoing, both in terms of the quality of the instrument, the expansion of the pitch range, and the shape of the resonator box.

PINKAN Indonesia organizes events both independently and in collaboration with the 4 main pillars, they are coaches, craftsmen, players, and kolintang conservationists.