Bathing, combing and wearing new clothes for dead relatives is a strange custom that takes place in August every year in an Indonesian village.
The strange custom, called MaiNene, takes place in Toraja village, south of Sulawesi.
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.
The Torajan people believe that after their death, the dead souls will return to the village they once lived.
In addition, the Torajan villagers also repaired and replaced decayed coffins for the deceased.
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.
They maintain strange customs to commemorate the deceased.
A couple stood side by side with a new outfit.
People put the body back to the coffin.
The mountain tombs of the Torajan people.
