KANTOLA

Kantola is recite with two or more persons singing pantuns . it is one kind of tradition in muna. kantola is as resemble as pantun in melayu, but kantola more specific, because it used the local language and metaphora language. kantola had been conducted since along ago period. Sidu Marafad said that: "kantola is legacy of ancestor that has high value and can train some body to use logical reasoning as speedy and exact along with make usual people to speak well mannered" (kapanlagi.com). usually kantola is conducted between men and women in groups. but not all people can do it. Sidu Marafat adds that: "not all people can do kantola because besides it must have any vocabularies of methapor language, also must have speed and coincidentally thinking to replay pantun from opponent" (kapanlagi.com). pantun from opponent, must immediately to be replied after the opponent explains his pantun. It can notbe waited for few minutes to think about the answered. So it needs skill from people that do kantola to select the good methapor language.