SABB: Toraja Ritual, Dig Out The Dead clean Them, Have Fun And Rebury

Culture is said to be the people's way of Life, But this way left many people around the world confused, It's so mysterious, and Unimaginable.

The Tana Toraja is a regency of South Sulawesi in Indonesia, a picturesque mountainous region that is home to an indigenous group known as the Torajans. For the Toraja people, life very much revolves around death, but not in a morbid sense. For them, a funeral is a great celebration of life, much like a going-away party, and is an occasion in which the entire family of the deceased, and all

the members the village take part.

Their ancient traditions involve funerary customs that have been practiced over many centuries and are known to be the most complex funeral traditions in the world.

The population of the Toraja is approximately 650,000, of which 450,000 still live in the regency of Tana Toraja (“Land of Toraja”). Most are Christian, others are Muslim, and a minority still retain the local beliefs known as Aluk Todolo (“Way of the Ancestors”), which are most visible during funeral festivities and burial customs.

Before the 20th century, Torajans lived in autonomous villages, where they practised animism, the worldview that non-human entities, including animals, plants, and often even inanimate objects or phenomena possess a spiritual essence.

They were relatively untouched by the outside world until Dutch missionaries arrived to convert the Torajan highlanders to Nevertheless, even those that follow other religions in Tana Toraja, still converge when it comes to ancient funeral customs.