The Toraja people of southern Sulawesi, one of Indonesia’s largest islands, are known for their elaborate death rituals, which include preserving and exhuming the dead. Relatives retrieve a ...

In Torajan culture, a person's funeral is the most important day of his or her life. Funerals can be so expensive that successive generations will be saddled with crippling debt.

It is thought that these Torajan death rites first began in 9 AD. These days, the practices are accompanied by Christian elements - including recitations of the Lord's prayer and biblical readings.

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One Torajan woman told BBC journalist Sahar Zand that she kept the body of her father, Paulo Cirinda, in her home for 12 years. “If we buried him straight away, ...

Indonesia: Torajan people and their unique funerary custom, Ma'nene is the most important day for the families. Every year, in the month of August, the Toraja people observe Ma'nene, a celebration ...

As an ethnic Torajan in northern Indonesia, Berta Kondorura's transition to the hereafter was supposed to be an elaborate mixture of mourning and tradition-steeped celebration. Most of the nearly ...

The Torajan families who live in the highlands of south Sulawesi, wash, groom and dress the bodies of their dead relatives and friends as part of Ma'nene annual harvest celebrations. 17.

The last king of Toraja was 93 when he took his final breath in July 2003. Five years later, he's still part of the family, quietly reposing in a small room in his former palace.

Ma'nene is the most important day for the families. Every year, in the month of August, the Toraja people observe Ma'nene, a celebration where they revisit their dead loved ones, take them out ...