Tinco

Tinco lies in the Bugis country of southern Sulawesi. Its local traditions recall a community called Maruangin, whose leaders were joined by a figure known as a to manurung, one who descended from the heavens. The descendants of this union became rulers of Tinco. According to the village's account, Islam arrived from Leworeng in the sixteenth century through Imam Abdul Kadir, who married into the ruling family and established a place of worship here.