1.1 Current administrative boundaries
The Saluan homeland lies within the boundaries of the current regency Indonesian: kabupaten of Banggai.
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This regency, with its capital of Luwuk, comprises thirteen districts Indonesian: kecamatan, shown in map 1. The three southeastern districts of Balantak, Lamala, and Masama are the traditional
homeland of the Balantak language area the small Andio enclave is also located in Masama. The two most southwestern districts, Toili and Toili Barat, were traditionally a kind of no man’s land or disputed
area between the Saluan peoples and their Bungku neighbors, who claimed control of the coastline further to the west Goedhart 1908:489–490. The area was rich in dammar pines, and trade in dammar
resin was likely a factor which spurred settlement of this area beginning more than a century ago. Today Toili and Toili Barat are largely populated by transmigrants from places such as Java and Bali, as well as
by Bugis, Pamona, and other peoples who have migrated locally from other parts of Sulawesi. Map 1. The Banggai Regency
©2015 SIL International. Includes geodata from worldgeodatasets.com
. Used with permission. The remaining eight districts are the traditional homeland of the Saluan people. Below we discuss
certain Saluan peoples who formerly lived in the interior. At present, however, the vast majority of Saluan people live on or within only a few kilometers of the coast. In fact today the entire regency is
circumscribed by an all-weather coastal road, which is also linked across the ‘neck’ through the village of Salodik. Beyond Nuhon district in the northwest, this road links the Banggai Regency with Poso, and
from there to Palu, the capital of Central Sulawesi. Only in the extreme southwest Toili and Toili Barat districts does the road turn rutted and a bit tortuous. In this direction one can travel by car only as far
as Kolo Atas in the Morowali Regency; points further west are normally reached by boat.
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This regency is so named because it used to also include the Banggai archipelago. In 1999 the Banggai islands became their own regency, named the Banggai Archipelago Regency Kabupaten Banggai Kepulauan.
1.2 Research sites
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