Thursday, 8 May 2008

Still Many Mangroves on the Edge of Bonepute Beach, Bone Regency.

Still there are some mangroves on the edge of Bonepute Beach. Although people have interests in doing fish pond business at this place, the beach environment can be said as a half in danger situation. Why it can be said like this? All we can see are about people behavior of the beach and its surrounding areas. So many people have their own interest in doing their fish and shrimp business here, but why the environment still can be kept safely although not all of it. The answer might be because there are still government control or might be because of people who live in this surrounding beach. Bonepute Beach is situated in Bone Regency, where its capital city is Watampone. Still this place is in South Sulawesi Province or South Celebes people name it. Around this beach there are also some sacred place on the hill close to the beach, and still jungle trees and teak forest can be found in this beach area. Those who are doing fish pond business in Bonepute Beach might be aware about this sacred place or might not care about it. But people who walk around the forest at this beach should aware of the danger of Cobra Snake in which according to some people could jump or fly between the trees in the nearby forest. All we know about inhabitant in this place most of them are still fishermen who always gone to the sea around middle of the night and come back to their home after the sun has risen. They are not faraway fishermen, as they just did their own work at the sea around the beach. Who is the fishpond business actors in this place then? They are not always the owner of the fish pond itself. Some of these fishpond are belong to the richmen in the Makassar City, either they are businessmen or government officers. And those who did the business either just salaried men or hired men for that purpose.

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