DANCE

MAKASSAR, 12/12 - PAKARENA DANCE. Maq Cidda, 80, performs traditional dance Pakarena in Buluq Tana village, Gowa, South Sulawesi province, December 12, 2012. During the reign of Gowa Kingdom, Pakarena Dance was an accompaniment to a ritual before planting rice seeds to ask the God for fertility in their land, but now it has been modified and has lost its symbols due to modernisation. FOTO ANTARA/Dewi Fajriani/Koz/Spt/ox/12.