UNIQUE CULTURE CEMETERY

For three years I served in the Barerreng Village, Baruppu’ District, North Toraja Regency (Community groups society Indonesia). The place has such breathtaking natural beauty and a very unique local indigenous culture which requires a cost of billions of dollars. We can find these natural beauty everywhere around Toraja’s Land such as hills, vast rice fields with clean water.I want say, one of the unique culture of Indonesia

TORAJA TOURS. A number of foreign tourists visiting the traditional ceremony of Rambu Solo Funeral in Tongkonan Siguntu, North Toraja, South Sulawesi. Traditional ceremony of Rambu Solo Funeral become one of the attraction for foreign tourists and local tourists to visit Toraja. I know about many of the unique culture of Tana Toraja like at place as in the event that there are often cultural, Sesean, Bori', Sigentu, Baruppu', Ridingallo, Sa'dan, Balussu etc.

Culture in the Toraja have names that I needed to introduce the ritual, also I gave a picture of the ritual.

MA’PASONGLO. A number of citizens paraded the bodies in a series of funeral ceremonies in Rambu Solo’ Cemetery in Sigentu, North Toraja, South Sulawesi. Ma’pasonglo ritual is a ritual procession of corpses and their families from Tongkonan to Lakkian which is a string of traditional ceremony Rambu Solo’ Funeral in North Toraja Regency, South Sulawesi.

MAPPASILAGA TEDONG. Many residents and tourists witnessed Mappasilaga Tedong or buffalo fights in North Toraja, South Sulawesi. The buffalo fights become a tradition at the traditional ceremony of Rambu Solo Funeral.

MA’TINGGORO TEDONG. Indigenous people slaughtering buffalo by cutting the neck of the buffalo in a series of traditional ceremony of Rambu Solo Funeral in Tongkonan Siguntu, North Toraja, South Sulawesi. Ma’tinggoro Tedong is a term in the Toraja language which means cut the throat of Buffalo.

An image of an indigenous people sitting on a buffalo that had been slain in a series of traditional ceremony of Rambu Solo Funeral in Tongkonan Siguntu, North Toraja, South Sulawesi, Monday (2/1). Ma’tinggoro Tedong or slaining the buffalo is a series of procession traditional ceremony of Rambu Solo a day before the funeral.

BOLU BUFFALO MARKET. A number of residents trade buffalo in Bolu Market, Rantepao, North Toraja, South Sulawesi. Bolu market is a name of a market in North Toraja Regency. Other than market for basic needs and as a terminal, Bolu market is also a livestock market. Bolu market is buffalo sales center in Toraja which price is ranging from 5 million rupiahs to hundreds of millions for one buffalo.

A figure of a man pulling a buffalo to be offered to buyer in the Bolu market, Rantepao, North Toraja, South Sulawesi.

MA’BADONG. A number of indigenous people of Toraja doing a procession of Ma’badong dancing after paraded the corpses in Sigentu, North Toraja, South Sulawesi. Ma’badong is one of the procession in Ma’pasonglo ritual.

GRAVE STONE. Tourists visiting the stone grave of Lemo in Toraja, South Sulawesi. The stone grave in Toraja Land consists of two types, natural and man-made. Natural stone grave is a stone grave of caves being used as a cemetery. Artificial graves are the result of sculpture from a carving artisan hired to perforate stone as ordered. The centuries-aged grave stone is one of the Toraja tourist attraction visited by many foreign tourists as well as local tourists.

MA’NIMBONG DANCE. A number of dancers sing as they performing Manimbong dancing or joy dancing in Toraja Cultural Festival 2011 in Rantepo, North Toraja, South Sulawesi. Ma’nimbong means joy.

BAMBOO MUSIC. Some kids playing bamboo music in Toraja Cultural Festival in Rantepao Toraja, North Toraja, South Sulawesi.

TORAJA CULTURE. Four women dressed in traditional Toraja in a series of traditional ceremony of Rambu Solo Funeral in North Toraja, South Sulawesi.






 THE SOURCE TEXT AND IMAGES:
1. Baruppu' Society 
2. Rangkain upacara adat Pemakaman Rambu Solo` di Kabupaten Toraja Utara