Cindako is one of the hamlets in Bonto Sombo Village, Tompobulu District, Maros Regency, South Sulawesi Province. Access to the hamlet can only be by two wheels for 2.5 km, with a road width of no more than one meter, conditions are steep, rocky and extreme.
Natural resources in Cindakko are very rich, but the Cindakko Indigenous People are very wise and wise in managing them. Tatakang is a local wisdom system that is still in force today. Tatakang is a former garden that was deliberately left for rest until a certain period of time to be planted again.
The Cindakko community cultivates lowland rice on a subsystem basis. The geographical shape is hilly, therefore terracing is a method used to conserve water, thereby reducing the speed and amount of surface flow, as well as increasing the opportunity for water absorption by the soil.
The Cindakko community's income comes from corn plantations, tapping pine resin and some Cindakko traditional women make palm sugar and ant sugar. Road access to Cindakko is the obstacle that most influences marketing.
Basic education is minimal and it is only elementary school with a distance of 2.5 km. For elementary school children, this condition is very worrying and dangerous, because they have to cross the edge of ravines, suspension bridges and steep inclines, slippery during the rainy season and dusty when summer arrives.
Apart from the difficult access to Cindakko Hamlet, Cindakko also does not yet have electricity, the country's lighting for the lights still uses solar panels. Cindakko also doesn't have a cellular network. Hopefully this situation will improve soon, the State can be present as a servant for all the Indonesian people.
