Fishing boat (maduras: parao majhang) is a common object we'll found on the sea water when we travels beach region of Madura. Not too big, because it have to "play" on sea waves when the owner try to catch a lot of fish. Usually have a pair of sails which catching wind to push the boat more powerful.
Not all sailor have a boat. The expensive material of boat causing only middle or upper class sailor can bought it. While the lower class sailor (labor sailor) plays as daily worker who ride the boat and catch lot of fish and then paid by the owner.
Maduras people was one of the most famous sailor of Indonesian archipelago. By this traditional boat, every one of them conquer the sea. They knew where the "flat" region and where the dangerous one. By the time, modern technology taking over conqueror position of the sea. Nowadays almost every day our oceans robbed by big stranger modern boats.
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