Boogeyman: Pelaut Bugis Nusantara yang sudah sejak awal masehi (dan sebelumnya) menjelajah samudra sampai Benua Afrika.
Ancient Indonesians: Born Sailors
Ancient ship of Indonesia traveling to Africa
Indonesian vessels has made trade voyages as far as Africa since 100 AD. Mariners from Indonesia traveled across to Africa, making themselves known as “Africa’s Vikings” as tough and daring sailors travels to fill in their vessels with gold andsilver for the princess of Java and Sumatra from unmapped lands which are now called Zimbabwe, Nigeria, South Africa and Mozambique.
Ancient Indonesia raided across the continent centuries before the Europeans even discovered that part of the world. At some point these sailors vanished. Some died, some returned home and some others inter-married with the locals in the unmapped land. The Asian influence in Africa was so absorbed that when the white men came, they never noticed it. It might be expected that they also explored the African mainland, just 150 miles further away, but unlike Madagascar there is little evidence: people on the continent do not resemble or talk like Indonesians.
One of the toughest group of sailors from Indonesia in the middle ages comes fromthe island of Sulawesi, Indonesia’s third largest island, also called Celebes. There is one tribe from this island that were tough and fierce pirates, feared by nations across the continent up to the world of the white men. The tribe is known until today as the “Bugis tribe” or the “Bugis pirates”. Westerners were terrified because of their ruthless piracy and until today the legend of these ancient pirates have still been used to scare western children, as adults threatens, “The boogeyman will come and get you!” The term ‘boogeyman’ was inspired by the pirates of Indonesia.
Today the Bugis tribe still exist and still sail but they are no longer pirates.
A = Sulawesi Island a.k.a. Celebes Island, the island of the Boogeyman
Ancient ship of Indonesia traveling to Africa
Indonesian vessels has made trade voyages as far as Africa since 100 AD. Mariners from Indonesia traveled across to Africa, making themselves known as “Africa’s Vikings” as tough and daring sailors travels to fill in their vessels with gold andsilver for the princess of Java and Sumatra from unmapped lands which are now called Zimbabwe, Nigeria, South Africa and Mozambique.
Ancient Indonesia raided across the continent centuries before the Europeans even discovered that part of the world. At some point these sailors vanished. Some died, some returned home and some others inter-married with the locals in the unmapped land. The Asian influence in Africa was so absorbed that when the white men came, they never noticed it. It might be expected that they also explored the African mainland, just 150 miles further away, but unlike Madagascar there is little evidence: people on the continent do not resemble or talk like Indonesians.
One of the toughest group of sailors from Indonesia in the middle ages comes fromthe island of Sulawesi, Indonesia’s third largest island, also called Celebes. There is one tribe from this island that were tough and fierce pirates, feared by nations across the continent up to the world of the white men. The tribe is known until today as the “Bugis tribe” or the “Bugis pirates”. Westerners were terrified because of their ruthless piracy and until today the legend of these ancient pirates have still been used to scare western children, as adults threatens, “The boogeyman will come and get you!” The term ‘boogeyman’ was inspired by the pirates of Indonesia.
Today the Bugis tribe still exist and still sail but they are no longer pirates.
A = Sulawesi Island a.k.a. Celebes Island, the island of the Boogeyman
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