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 ...

Hundreds of years ago it was said that there was a civil war in Tana Toraja namely the Toraja West fought against the East Toraja people. In the battle the West Toraja was defeated because most of ...

After all, she has been dead for the last seven years. Alfrida is of the Toraja people of southern Sulawesi in Indonesia, for whom the line between life and death is not black and white.

We are at a mountaintop cemetery in the village of Pangala in North Toraja, a regency of South Sulawesi in Indonesia, witnessing ma’nene, a ritual to pay homage to ancestors, which takes place ...

It's an annual tradition and happens every August before planting season in the community in Panggala, Nort Toraja, South Sulawesi, but the photos never fail to astound. The annual Toraja death ...

The tradition for the million plus Toraja community dates back centuries. With animist beliefs - the doctrine that every natural thing in the universe has a soul - the line between this world and ...

Growing Toraja tourism faces several hurdles, although opposition from locals does not appear to be among them. Rather, poor infrastructure and the absence of a major airport in the highland ...

He died on the way to the hospital. Last December, Yohanes and his family held a rambu solo funeral ceremony for Lukas in Tikala district, North Toraja regency, South Sulawesi. The peak of the ...

Sundays in the town of Rantepao, the capital of the Tana Toraja regency in Sulawesi, Indonesia, is all about buffaloes. It is market day, or Hari Pasar in local lingo. And the centre of attraction ...

Tana Toraja Traditional Settlement is a series of 10 traditional settlements or constituents of them, such as burial or ceremonial grounds. The properties are scattered within Tana Toraja Regency in ...