A village in my hometown called Sorowako offers us a panoramic beauty of nature surrounding coastal of Lake Matano and Verbeck mountain.I myself come from Wawondula, a part of East Luwu beside Sorowako or Soroako and Wasuponda.
The Lake Matano is also the home to hundreds of endemic fauna species, including shrimp, crabs, snails, and fish. Besides, there is a unique thing of a fauna found in the Lake Matano that cannot be found in other lakes that exist in Indonesia and in the world.
It is found that in Lake Matano there are endemic fish species that are rare in the world. This fish was named as ancient fish because of its color, the brown, and its structure is similar to the ancient fish. For local people, the fish is called "buttini".
Some researchers have ever come to the lake and and did research toward the fish, then they revealed that the fish ‘buttini’ is an ancient fish species and breed only in Lake Matano. Buttini fish is famous enough in the local people in East Luwu.
Although the shape is a little weird with eyeballs bulging out with brownish skin, but the meat is tasty if it is cooked with spicy ingredients.
Recently, when I did my community services as a new lecturer of Universitas Muslim Indonesia (UMI) Makassar in Gowa regency, I found the same fish. After doing our activity, I arrived at a citizen’s house in front of Bili-bili dam and I saw a fisherman came up from his boat and brought some fish. Then I asked where he got the fish, then he explained that the breed of the fish bought by the regent of Gowa from Matano lake in Soroako with an intention to breed it in Bili-Bili dam. In fact, it was succeed and now we can also find Buttini fish in Bili-Bili dam. Then, I told the fisherman that Soroako is my hometown, so that I’m used to see the fish.
I get curious about the fish, then I bought it some from the fisherman. When I got back home, I cooked and ate it, I found the taste is very different with the one I am used to eat from Soroako. Up to now, my mom always sent me the fish, either the already cooked or the dried ones.
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