They do not spare their dead

Living in a remote corner of Indonesia, after rising to a community life people in the world is preserved. Sometimes weeks, sometimes years Torajn remain with the dead.



Indonesia's Sulawesi island, killing the living Torajn very different beliefs. Until their 
community who died in the name of someone killed a water buffalo are not, they do not consider the person completely dead. Buffalo because they believe the deceased rides that take you from this world. By then the body of the deceased has family in their home just as he is alive. Some of the dead, the second funeral of the community as well. For this, they are handled by the body certain ways for years. A few years later, it is being cleaned out, new clothes to wear, and thus they show respect for their dead kin.



In this family tradition as rich as long as they find the bodies loaded handle. Several years ago, while some rich people poor. Funeral ceremony of affluent families go for weeks. It is not know exactly when this tradition was started. Torajn timber coffins of people to check on the process of carbon dating has shown that this tradition as old as the ninth century seems.