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Abstract
This article will give a description of the ethnographical border and political top minority
citizens Group located in South Sulawesi, i.e. the believers Towani Tolotang that until now still
esksis there even in the national political scene, contemporary Towani Tolotang ghosts because
it has representatives in the legislature. The community seems to be playing politics Towani
Tolotang accommodating and make use of what was to become the will of the political regime
of Muslims and Hindus, where both of them are scrambling for mutual acknowledge and enter
in the tradition of the religion: Islam or Hinduism. As citizens, communities have a variety of
strategies Towani Tolotang which makes it able to survive and fight in the throes of various
kinds of interest; as economic and political gain, as well as the commodification of ethnicity and
religion were rampant in the area due to redistricting (decentralization). This article is based on
field research and library for the past year dealing with political citizens pressed for by the large
number of discriminatory treatment.