Dont ever leave the village of Hukaea Laea. Dont ever leave you ancestral homeland. Those were the parting words of Pak Disi, a tribal figure in the Moronene tradition, just before he passed away at the end of 1999. Unfortunately, the Moronene (pronounced moro-nay-nay), the oldest ethnic group in Southeast Sulawesi, cannot fulfill the final directive of their venerable elder. It wasnt their intention to disobey him. But they have already been exp