Villagers dig up dead relatives and dress them up and spend time chatting to them
Villagers dig up dead relatives and dress them up and spend time chatting to them
Family members clean relatives’ preserved remains in Lembang today (Picture: Andri Saputra/AFP)
A ceremony has been held which sees families dress up the corpses of their dead relatives – and even pop lit cigarettes into their mouths.
The Toraja people, of Indonesia’s mountainous South Sulawesi region, care for their loved ones long after they die.
They believe the line between life and death is…
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