As a new subscriber going back in time with your content, I got to say, I am very impressed by the anthropological value in your Torajan series. You have approached it with no judgment and a wonderful openness. Throughout these episodes, your questions are just about the right questions to ask, and your guide's responses are detailed and insightful. The learning experience for your children is the envy of anthropo students everywhere!
I am touched by the modesty and humbleness of all your family members, I can feel it. Visiting places that are not usually visited by foreign tourists in Indonesia, provide a different experience for your extraordinary children. Bless your family
Have you seen the baby burial? The Torajan buried their dead unborn babies inside a tree trunk. They believed that the baby spirit will continue to grow by nurturing from the milk like substance (tree sap) coming from the tree.
11:50 I've noticed pak Arru starting to look into the camera more nowadays 😃 (well at least in this video). Thanks for the detailed video + explanation Mr. Jonathan. Been to Toraja when I'm still in kindergarten, now I've learnt alot. Stay safe & stay healthy, warm regards to your family 🤗
Wow it's a really expensive process,from holding a ceremony, sacrifices to burial & other miscellaneous whatnot.The amount of labour and time making a hole & carving is insane.Lots of tough work.Respect!!
Well you got a new subscriber! I love your content since I watched the Nasi Goreng episode when it appear at my homepage. Enjoy Indonesia for you and your amazing family! We glade to have all of you here, God bless! ❤️
finally you and your family visiting my village, and the highest hole on the stone grave is my grandmother grave, big thanks for you and your family for visiting my village 🙏
This walking corpse tradition is usually held in a traditional ceremony called Ma'Nene. The traditional ceremony was carried out in order to change the clothes of the corpses of the ancestors, which was carried out by the Baruppu people in the interior of Tana Toraja. The Ma'nene ceremony is held every three years and usually in August.
hmm interesting, but for me, i prefer simple things if buried someday😄 actually proud of them cuz this lately modern era they still keep doing and conserve the tradition culture from grand grand mother. nice video Sir, keep safe and God bless ur family👍👍
I know understand why my wife's Torajan relatives work really hard, it's because their ceremonies cost a LOT of money, even for Western standard. My wife's relatives either work as engineers or doctors, because the higher the pay, the more buffaloes they can afford for the ceremonies. I am sort of glad of being Javanese, with a much simpler burial culture, but also proud at how diverse Indonesia is. So glad you can expose your kids to such cultures and experiences! Travelling through Indonesia could feel like traveling to different countries, even when you only cross a provincial border, and I hope that this exposure to diversity could enrich your kids positively 🙏🏼
Believe me, it's better to have heat from the sun, than heavy rainfall during the trip in Indonesia 😁 13:03 I think he's kind of whispering when saying 'lower class', so the spirits wont get offended or something (you know just to be polite for the dead) I don't know, just my guess
Yes, indeed ... cultural tranditions and ceremonies can be really expensive nowadays - which I don't know compared to the old days long time ago Just like funeral ceremony in Bali "Ngaben" ... in Hindu traditions, the deaths should be burnt, and most Ngaben that we usually see are also from the noble class family, which involve complicated giving and offering or "sesajen" to the God - that's why it looks pretty amazing for us, with its music, dancing, etc But what we don't usually see is the lower class, how do they burn the death body ?? The insteresting one is that, they wait until there's a noble class die - while still burrying their death family decently so when there's a noble class die and going to do "Ngaben", these lower classes will dig out their family grave and collect the bones ... put the bones surrounding the noble death body - and all will be burnt together in the same Ngaben ceremony After finished ... each family will again collect the ashes of their death relatives It's interesting for me because there's some kind of "sharing and giving" in this way of life - which I don't know if this also happens in India as the ppl there are also Hindus and have the same cremation tradition So when we - the outsiders of Balinese - see Ngaben, we know that there's not only one body is burnt in that ceremony, but maybe tens of them who passed away and have lived within the same village with the noble person Always amazed seeing how these old traditions are well preserved till now ... thanks much for the video, giving me more knowledge and undertanding. ❤️ it 👍
it's become expensive because we exchange the labor by buying/paying someone to prep the ceremony attributes. in the past, the Ngaben ceremony (not just for noble) can took at least 1 week to prepare, people around the neighbor (banjar) must come to the place of people who died to help them prepare the Ngaben ceremony attributes. and in the past we rarely bought the materials, for coconut leaf for the "banten" we usually gather from the field (or neighbor who have/own coconut tree donate the leaf, fruit, etc). so in the past we gather all materials and people for whole week to prep the attributes, but now we cannot do that because others need to go to work (and we cannot force them to take 1 week off), so to exchange this missing human labor/materials we pay someone or buy the ceremony attributes, this change the ceremony from culture into commodities. and for mass Ngaben ceremony which still implemented in some area in Bali, the reason is not always because of noble people die, usually it have time span (every 5 years) or when the graveyard is no longer capable to hold dead people. like my wife village (Lod Tunduh, Ubud), the ceremony should be held in the next 1-2 years but it plan to happen in this mid August along with neighbor village (Mawang, Ubud) because the graveyard nearly full.
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Seeing this video, I really want to marry a foreigner and live in this very beautiful Indonesia, I can imagine it's a very happy thing, being able to create content together and live to accept each other's strengths and weaknesses Good job my dear friends
why dont u start business by exporting suffs like spices, coffee Luwak etc from Indonesia to America , ull make big profit margin, just provide a warehouse in there in someone u can trust in here
