Austronesian ethnic group
Bugis
The Buginese, or simply Bugis, are an Austronesian ethnic group who are the most numerous of the three major ethnolinguistic groups of South Sulawesi, in the south-western province of Sulawesi, third-largest island of Indonesia.
The Bugis converted from animism to Islam in 1605. Small minorities adhere to Christianity or a pre-Islamic indigenous belief called Tolotang.
How locals move
Getting around Bugis the local way
- Get inA similar scheme is available for citizens of India who have a valid visa or residence permit issued by Australia, Canada, Germany, Japan, New Zealand, Switzerland, the United Kingdom or the United States (Schengen visas issued by other countries do not count), and have an onward plane, ferry or cruise ticket to a third country.
- Get inFerries link Singapore with the neighbouring Indonesian province of Riau Islands, and the Malaysian state of Johor.
- Get inSingapore has two terminals that handle international ferries: near Sentosa and near Changi Airport.
- Get inHarbourFront Ferry Terminal is located inside HarbourFront Centre shopping mall, not to be confused with the adjoining VivoCity.
- Get inTanah Merah Ferry Terminal is located south of Changi Airport.
- Get inFrom there, take bus 35/35M to the ferry terminal.
- Get inIf you are arriving at Tanah Merah Ferry Terminal, getting a taxi can be very difficult due to the remote location and 200 other people hailing them simultaneously; it's often faster to take bus 35/M a few stops to the nearest MRT station and try your luck there.
- Get inThe bus calls twice in its route at the ferry terminal and visitors must pre-register to enter the logistics park ALPS.
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Text adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0. Photograph: Aciarium (see Commons), Wikimedia Commons.