In 1546, the Portuguese began combing every coast and islands in North Maluku earth. Gulf Galela not miss. In 1570 Sultan Khairun poisoned by the Portuguese while hold talks. His son, Sultan Babullah vowed to expel the Portuguese out of their strongholds and aggressively targeting and pounding each noteable Portuguese stronghold Mamuya not recorded in history.
These events take their toll on the Portuguese. Aid ships coming also not be separated from the target. One of the great ships that sailed down times Tiabo, at that time most of the valley Galela still flooded, finally sank in the area Dokulamo positioned at 3 Km from time Tiabo and 9 km from the beach. Eyewitnesses and owner of the land, Alm. Julian Senyenyi, never tells that when he was treating the land he discovered the wreck of a length of 30 fathoms, or about 45 meters and a width of 9 fathoms (15 meters).
Unfortunately the wreck wreckage burned up most of the iron rust and has been transported to nothing left anymore. Where he sank even now planted with coconut. The area by the villagers Dokulamo called Kakapal area.
The Portuguese vessel into the upstream Tiabo to avoid pursuit Korakora forces Sultan of Ternate. Unfortunately they are unfortunate because even managed to escape but the troops inland Alifuru Galela been waiting. Battle became inevitable again.
In the first attack, the Portuguese troops with weapons with them successfully takes a lot of casualties Alifuru. This forced the retreat while Alifuru to set the power and new combat tactics.
The second attack was carried out, but this time no longer use physical force and armed. Alifuru forces using bees as the power to paralyze the enemy. This attack makes the Portuguese troops who were both on board and ashore into a frenzy when the bees come from different directions to attack them.
These bees sting had caused many casualties among the Portuguese. Rescue efforts carried out with fire and brimstone, and counterattack with indiscriminate gunfire, make Alifuru troops retreat and avoid stray bullets. Alifuru troop pullback used by the Portuguese to leave the ship and the area Dokulamo heading south. They settled in the area of Mount Hum and then called the Rum area which suggests that the region is home people from Romanic.
The Portuguese in the area Hum / Rum can not live in peace because people Galela often disturb their peace. They were then chose to move to the area to keep the mound Karianga Tobelo the south area Wangongira, Kusuri, Kao valley, river rod toward Tetewang Jodo times. This displacement bring them together with fellow countrymen the same fate around Pasir Putih shipwrecked.
Most of them settled and integrated with the local community. To remove traces as they are learning the Portuguese language and strive Tobelo eliminate language accents. They then walked with the Tobelo and Kao who is ultimately make most people Togutil communicate using language Tobelo Boeng and Modole. These efforts are made to avoid the pursuit of Ternate and Alifuru troops against the remnants of the Portuguese in North Maluku which ran into the woods.
In its development, the Portuguese was then living in a way to move into areas that they consider to be safer while still breed. Their population is known to occupy the forest in the southern North Halmahera to Wasilei forest in East Halmahera. They are happy to live on the shores of the river. Their house made of logs or leaf thatch roofed leaves woka without walls. Their diet is by eating raw or cooked by fire with bamboo. Most of their drinking water directly from the river.
Stature Togutil tribes who have intermarried is like the Portuguese in general. They are tall and big, white and sharp nose. Their daughters were beautiful with eyeball-gray colored nodes. Their lifestyle is still very dependent on natural products. Eating of fruits, tubers, buds and young leaves of bush forest animals and fish the river.
Their dependence on nature makes them have a nomadic lifestyle. After supply of tubers and fruits and animals is reduced they will move to a new area. So that they became known as the Halmahera forest owners considering that they are the first to explore and forests occupy Halmahera.
Togutil tribes living patterns that have been mingled with the community can be seen from their ability to cultivate tubers and fruits as well as an annual plant that lives no longer move where. They also can use agricultural tools and dress well.
Togutil tribe tribes but now is not more of an indigenous forest dwellers Halmahera. Need attention, awareness of the various parties to raise the dignity of their lives like other Halmahera society. The trick is not to build housing for those on shore and then force them out of the forest so that we can rob all forest wealth they have left without consideration of causation.
Houses are built will remain empty because basically they are not coastal. Forests are living palace while the coast is a catastrophe of life for those who are called Togutil. Thank you for reading this article.
Written and posted by Bambang Sunarno. sunarnobambang86@gmail.com
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DatePublished: January 26, 2015 at 17:44
