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Every three years, the people of Torajan pay homage to their deceased relatives by digging up their bodies, cleaning them and dressing them in their favourite clothes. They consider it a celebration of life.
The Ma’nene festival in Indonesia may seem strange, but to the local people it is a ritual with a long history that has been repeated every three years.
The Torajan people, an ethnic group from the mountainous region of Tana Toraja on the Indonesian island of Sulawesi, pay homage to their deceased relatives by digging them up, cleaning their corpses and dressing them in their favourite clothes. For them, the Ma’nene festival (translated as ‘the body-cleaning ceremony’) is a celebration of life.
During this event, the dead can be seen exhumed, arranged and dressed. As the bodies are paraded through the village, a group of people repair or replace, if necessary, the coffins. It is a sign of respect to strengthen the link between life and death.
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