Continuously dig graves, wear new clothes and process dead people around the village

Bathing, combing and wearing new clothes for dead relatives is a strange custom that takes place in August every year in an Indonesian village.

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The strange custom, called MaiNene, takes place in Toraja village, south of Sulawesi.

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Every August, villagers dig up their graves, bathe, comb their hair and wear new clothes for the dead.After that, they took the village's corpses.

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The Torajan people believe that after their death, the dead souls will return to the village they once lived.

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In addition, the Torajan villagers also repaired and replaced decayed coffins for the deceased.

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Previously, the people of Torajan were afraid to go away.They worry that if they die far away, their souls will not return to their homeland.

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They maintain strange customs to commemorate the deceased.

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A couple stood side by side with a new outfit.

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People put the body back to the coffin.

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The mountain tombs of the Torajan people.