Exploring Tana Toraja

Tana Toraja is generally the name of Regency in South Sulawesi Province. This region became one of the cultural icons in Sulawesi due to its extraordinary cultural peculiarities. Tana Toraja gives a mysterious impression to the immigrants as well as tourists who visit it because of the feel of the residence of Tana Toraja people who seem very natural as well as the mysticism of society is very high. Various customs and ceremonies of Toraja people intersect close to the death itself. Tana toraja community Toraja community has a typical custom house called Tongkonan and banua. Tongkonan shaped house on stilts (built with a high floor a few meters from the ground) with an exotic curved curved roof. One of the famous tongkonan in Tana Toraja is Buntu Kalando which is the house where Puang Sangalla or King Sangalla lived once. While the banua is a simple bamboo hut that is a place of ordinary people's lives or slaves. The Toraja people mostly live in the valley between high mou...

Tradition Ma'nene.  One of the distinctive traditions Tana Toraja that has become a popular tourist destination tradition for local and foreign tourists are Ma'nene tradition. Ma'nene tradition is a tradition in memory of ancestors by cleaning and replacing clothes the bodies of the ancestral people of Tana Toraja. This tradition is specifically carried out by the people who live in the interior Baruppu North Toraja. tradition Ma'nene For the people in the region Baruppu, dead bodies or the bodies of relatives is an integral part of the surviving family members. In addition, the Society Baruppu have confidence that although the bodies of the dead, the ancestors remain "alive" and keep an eye on the offspring of another nature. Therefore, every 3 years or about August when the harvest is over, do the "cleansing" of the bodies or the bodies of their relatives. The trick is to issue a "mummified" bodies from inside the crate to be cleane...