The Sultan of Buton Palace

The Sultan of Buton Palace (called Kamali or Malige) although established only with tangled, without straps or spikes, can stand with the sturdy and majestic above the passwords that are the foundation base. Buton Buton custom home or a building on stilts, and entirely of wood. The building consists of four levels or four floors.

The first floor space larger than the second floor. While the fourth floor is greater than the third floor, so getting to the top vanishingly small or narrow room, but on the fourth floor a little wider. The whole building without using a nail in the making, but rather use wooden pegs or nails. Front pillars consist of 5 pieces lined up back-to eight-row, until the total is 40 units pole. Mullion towering upwards and is the main pillar called Tutumbu which means to grow steadily.

These poles are made of wood and everything wala quadrangular. For ordinary people's houses, poles rounded. Usually these masts peak clipped. By looking at the number of pole beside it be known who or what the status of the owner. Custom homes that have a pole beside the 4 pieces means the house consists of three plots is the home of ordinary people.

Custom house next to the 6-poster will have 5 plots or space, this house is usually owned by the Sultan or house staff member custom Buton sultanate. While the traditional house that has a pole next to the 8 means that the house has seven rooms and is specific to house the Sultan of Buton.

The room arrangement

The arrangement of rooms in the palace is as follows:

1. The first floor consists of seven plots or room, the room first and second serves as a place to receive guests or members of the courtroom Hadat kingdom of Buton. The third room was divided, the left is used for guest bedroom, and the right of the dining room. The fourth room is also divided by two, serves as a nursery Sultan married. The fifth space as a dining room of the Sultan, or in the guest room, while room sixth and seventh from left to right is used as a plot of girls who've grown Sultan, Sultan rooms and rooms boy mature Sultan.
2. The second floor is divided into 14 one room, the seven rooms on the right side and 7 rooms on the left side. Each room has its own ladder until there are seven steps to the left and seven right hand stairs, all 14 pieces of the stairs. The function of these rooms are for family guests, as an office, and as a warehouse. Large room that is located next to the front as a family living room of the Sultan, while an even larger as the Hall.
3. The third floor serves as a place of recreation.
4. The fourth floor serves as a place for drying. In the next room there is a building Malige buildings such as houses mecil stage, which is used as a kitchen, which is associated with an alley in the stake anyway. In the pavilion was used as an office building the pavilion. In the building there are 2 kinds of ornaments Malige, namely that there are dragons carved on the top ridge of the house, and pineapple fruit carving board that hung on the eaves, and under the front side rooms. As for the ornament contains a very deep meaning, which is carving a dragon is a symbol of the greatness of the kingdom of Buton. While carving pineapple fruit, the pineapple stems that have just grown a pineapple, a symbol that there is only one emperor in the kingdom of Buton. Pineapple flower-crowned, meaning that the right to the royal umbrella dipayungi with only the Sultan of Buton only. Pineapple is a drupe, but the seeds do not grow pineapples from seed, but from rumpunya new shoots arise. This means that the sultanate of Buton not as a legacy bequeathed to children birth to her own child. Pineapple philosophy is symbolized as a sultanate of Buton, Buton and Malige human-like cavity.

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