This fort consists of three components namely
Badili,
Lawa, and
Baluara The circular fort with a circumference of 2,740 meters. The Buton Palace Fortress received awards from the
Indonesian World Records Museum (
MURI) and the Guinness Book Record, which was issued in September 2006 as the largest castle in the world with an area of about 23,375 hectares. This fort has 12 gates called Lawa and 16 emplacement cannons which they call Baluara. Because it is located at the top of a high hill with a fairly steep slope allows this place as the best defense place in its day. From the edge of the fort, which still stands firmly, you can enjoy the view of the city of
Bau-Bau and back and forth ships in the Strait of
Buton clearly from a height, a sight that is quite frightening. In addition, in the fort area, various historical relics of the Sultanate of Buton can be found. Initially, the fort was only built in the form of a pile of stones arranged around the palace complex with the aim of making a fence between the palace complex and the community as well as a defensive castle. During the reign of Sultan Buton IV named La Elangi or Sultan Dayanu Ikhsanuddin, the fort in the form of a pile of stones was made a permanent building.
Badili (Cannon) The Badili is a cannon made of scrap metal measuring 2 to 3 depa (about 180 cm). This cannon is a former weapon of the
Sultanate of Buton, a relic of the Portuguese and Dutch, which can be found in almost all fortifications in the city of Bau-Bau.
Lawa In Wolio means the gate. Lawa functions as a liaison between the palace and the villages around the palace fort. There are 12 lawa in the palace fort. Number 12 according to public belief represents the number of holes in the human body, so that the castle fort is likened to the human body. The 12 lawa has each name in accordance with the title of the person watching it, the mention of the lawa strung by its name. The word lawa is imbued with the suffix 'na' to 'lawana'. The suffix 'na' in
Buton functions as a substitute for the word "it". Each lawa has a different shape but in general can be distinguished both the shape, width and construction are made of stone and also combined with wood, a kind of gazebo on it that functions as an observation tower. 12 Lawa names include: , , , , , , , , , and .
Baluara The word is derived from the Portuguese language which means bastion. Baluara was built before the castle fort was founded in 1613 during the reign of La Elangi / Dayanu Ikhsanuddin (the fourth buton sultan) together with the construction of 'godo' (warehouse). Of the 16 , two of them have Godo which is located above the . Each serves as a storage area for bullets and gunpowder. Each fund has a different shape, adapted to the conditions of the land and place. Baluara are named after the village where they are located. The name of the village was inside the palace fort at the time of the
Sultanate of Buton.16 Baluara names are: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , and . ==References==