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Pinisi is a traditional Indonesian sailing ship, originating from Bugis from South Sulawesi province. This ship has two main screen poles and seven screens, three on the front end, two on the front, and two at the rear of the ship. seven screens have the meaning that the ancestors of the Indonesian people were able to navigate seven great oceans in the world. Pinisi or sometimes written by Phinisi for centuries has traveled the sea to Malacca, Burma, Vietnam and Australia. Bugis people are known to make ships and are strong sailors. Pinisi ships have taken them sailing to distant regions in the archipelago, and even many of them later settled in Java, Kalimantan, Sumatra, Papua and the Nusa Tenggara Islands. Bugis are not only respected as sea experts but also very feared as pirates. According to the mythology of the Tanah Beru people in South Sulawesi, the beginning of the creation of the pinisi ship was when their ancestors made a larger boat to sail the ocean. the boat wil