Funeral - Toraja

Funeral 

In Toraja society, funerals are the most important rituals and expensive. The more wealthy and powerful person, then the cost of funeral services will be more expensive. In aluk religion, only the noble families who are entitled to hold a large funeral party. Feast of the funeral of a nobleman is usually attended by thousands of people and lasted for several days. A place called rante funeral procession is usually prepared in a broad meadow, other than as a place of mourners in attendance, as well as a rice barn, and various other burial devices made by the family of the deceased. Flute music, singing, song and poetry, weeping and wailing is an expression of grief by the Toraja but all was not applicable to funerals of children, the poor, and low class people.

A funeral is sometimes just held after weeks, months, even years since the death in question, with the aim that the family can collect enough money to cover funeral expenses. Toraja Tribe believes that death is not something that comes with a sudden but is a gradual process towards Puya (world spirit, or afterlife). In times of waiting, the corpse was wrapped with several pieces of cloth and kept under tongkonan. Spirits of the dead believed to remain in the village until the funeral ceremony is completed, after which the soul will travel to Puya.

Another part of the cemetery is the buffalo sacrifice. The more powerful person, the more buffalo are slaughtered. Slaughter is done by using a machete. Buffalo carcass, including head, lined up in the desert, waiting for his owner, who was in the "time asleep". Toraja Tribe believes that the spirits need a buffalo to make the trip and will more quickly reach Puya if there is a lot of buffalo. Buffalo slaughter of tens and hundreds of pigs is the culmination of a funeral which lacks the music and dance that captures the young blood that spurt with a long bamboo. Some meat is given to the guests and noted because it will be considered as debt on the family of the deceased.

There are three ways a funeral: The coffin can be stored in the cave, or in a tomb carved stone, or hanging on the cliff. Rich people are sometimes buried in a tomb carved stone. The tomb is usually expensive and time it was created around a few months. In some areas, stone caves used to store the bodies of all family members. Wood sculpture called tau tau is usually placed in the cave and faced the death luar.Peti baby or child with a rope hanging on the cliff side. Ropes are usually lasted for a year before the rot and make the casket fell.  

Tongkonan

Tongkonan is the traditional Toraja house that stood on the pile of wood and decorated with carvings of red, black, and yellow. The word "tongkonan" is derived from the Toraja language tongkon
Tongkonan is central to the social life of the Toraja. Rituals associated with tongkonan very important in the spiritual life of the Toraja therefore all family members are required to participate because Tongkonan melambangan their relationship with their ancestors. According to folklore Toraja, tongkonan first constructed in heaven with four poles. When the Toraja ancestor came down to earth, he mimics the house and held a big ceremony.
Tongkonan development work is tiring and is usually done with the help of a large family. There are three types of tongkonan. Tongkonan layuk is a place of supreme power, which is used as central "government". Tongkonan pekamberan belongs to a family member who has a certain authority in local customs and traditions while family members usually live in tongkonan stone. The exclusion of the nobility of tongkonan decreases the number of ordinary people seeking gainful employment in other areas in Indonesia. After gaining enough money, ordinary people were able to build large tongkonan. Woodcut

Tana Toraja

District is a district of Tana Toraja in South Sulawesi Province, Indonesia. The capital of this district is Makale. Before the expansion, the district has an area of 1990 km ² and a population of 248,607 inhabitants (2007).
Toraja tribe who inhabit the mountain areas and maintain a distinctive lifestyle and still show the original Austronesian lifestyle and culture are similar to Nias. This area is one tourist attraction in South Sulawesi.

Sightseeing

Tana Toraja is one of the Indonesian tourist attraction, inhabited by a tribe who inhabit the mountains of Toraja and maintaining a distinctive lifestyle and still show the original Austronesian lifestyle and culture are similar to Nias. This area is one tourist attraction in South Sulawesi.
Pallawa
Tongkonan Pallawa is one tongkonan or traditional house that very interesting and were among the bamboo trees on the hilltop. Tongkonan is decorated with a number of buffalo horn that is attached at the front of traditional house. Located about 12 km to the north of Rantepao.
Londa
Londa is the steep rocks on the side of a typical tomb Tana Toraja. One was located on high ground from the hill with a cave in which the corpse crates are set according to the family line, the other one left open hillside views overlooking the green expanse. Located about 5 km to the south of Rantepao.
Ke'te trouble
The object of this charming village of Tongkonan, rice barns and buildings in the surrounding megaliths. About 100 yards behind this village there is a cliff with the grave cemetery site dependent and tau-tau in a given building stone fence. Tau-tau shows the daily appearance of the owner. This village is also known as carving skills possessed by its inhabitants as well as a great place to shop for souvenirs. Located about 4 km from southeast Rantepao.
Stone Tumonga
In this area you can find about 56 stone menhirs in a loop with 4 trees in the middle. Most stone menhir has a height of about 2-3 meters. From here you can see the beauty of Rantepao and surrounding valleys. Located in Sesean area with an altitude of 1300 Meters above sea level.
Lemo
This place is often referred to as the home of the spirits. In the cemetery you can see the corpses Lemo yanng stored in the open air, amid the steep rocks. This cemetery is the combination of death, art and ritual. At certain times clothing from the bodies will be replaced with a ceremony Ma 'Nene. 

 

Enrekang

ENREKANG, - Earth Massenrempulu not only known as an area agropolitan (producer of vegetables). But it is also an area that has a million tourist attraction that is very unique and interesting. Starting from the waterfalls, caves, and several historic sites against colonialism before Indonesia's independence.
One of the unique scenery that might step in this world, for example, views Buttu Kabobong. Buttu landscape Kabobong located in the Village District Bambapuang Anggeraja Enrekang, is only 16 km from the city Enrekang. Buttu Kabobong is located in the north towards Tanah Toraja district, so that not just the tourists who enjoy, but also every person who crossed the road axis Enrekang-Toraja, would feel incredibly unique.
Buttu in the Indonesian language means Mountain and Kabobong as a vital tool of women, so that Buttu Landscape Landscape Kabobong sometimes called Mount Mem. Bentukknya too, like a vital tool of women. The sight of this unique, has its own history. (Deddy)