Thin rice still covers the mountains of Tongariu village, Rimbing Allo, North Toraja. A number of citizens designed bamboo to be used as stairs in a large stone hill wall of 50 meters x 30 meters. From the wall of the stone hill looks tens of four-shaped liangs decorated with small doors that engrave the typical of Toraja, called the locomata Bukit Batu Lokomata, where the semayamnya for relatives and families of the Toraja tribes in the area.
The family children begin to climb to the stone wall and open a lahat door known as the term “ma’open”. After that the jenazah coffin starts to be lowered one by one, because in one lahat liang, there can be two or even eight jenazah coffin.
After the jenazah coffin is lowered, the azajenh was released to be shown to other family children. Not a little jenazah that has become a skull and there is also a part of the jenazah that still collapses the parts of his body.
One jenazah unit is cleaned, for the jenazah that has become the skull will be wrapped with the fabric and not inserted again into the casket. But for the jenazah who is still intact part of the body even though it has tens of years, it is only cleaned and inserted again into the casket.
Jenazah that has been cleaned and wrapped with the fabric, then it will be inserted again to the liang lahat. The process of opening (Ma’open), removing, cleaning, and wraping that is known as Ma’nenene.
Ritual Ma’Nene is a custom heritage conducted by the residents of Tongariu three years old, when the season of the term harvest arrived. This ritual is also interpreted as a form of affection and love for families who are still living against their families who have died. As the adhesive of the drought, and even becomes the intangible rules. When one of the spouses of the wife died the world, then the spouse that died should not be married again before holding Ma`ne, otherwise the status they are still considered a spouse of a legitimate wife.
Namun is beloved, the ritual of Ma’ne has not been completely camped by the local government so that it is not a separate tourist object.
Press and Photos : Yusran Uccang
Thin food still covers the mountains of Tongariu village, Rimbing Allo district, North Toraja
The thin grain still covers the mountains of Tongariu village, Rimbing Allo district, North Toraja
The thin grain still covers the mountains of Tongariu village, Rimbing Allo district, North Toraja
The thin grain still covers the mountains of Tongariu village, Rimbing Alloraja district, Thin Toraja District
The thin grain still covers the mountains of Tongariu village, Rimbing Allo district, North Toraja
Kabingi Toraja, All Tongou area
