Padewakang

Padewakangs were traditional boats used by the Bugis, Mandar, and Makassar people of South Sulawesi.

The origin of the name is unknown, though some have suggested that it stems from Dewakang Island, an important navigational landmark between Sulawesi and Java.

[2] It typically weights between 20 and 50 tons, had one or two tripod masts with "lateen" (tanja) sails made of mat.

Padewakang were the biggest craft of South Sulawesi as trading vessel and as war fleets, used for hundreds of years sailing the seas between western New Guinea, the southern parts of the Philippines, and the Malay Peninsula.

In the early 1970s thousands of pinisi-palari ships measuring up to 200 tonnes of cargo, the world's largest commercial sailing fleet at the time, had contacted all corners of the Indonesian seas and became the trading backbone of the people.