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The Ancient Tana Toraja

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Tana Toraja Tana Toraja or Torajaland or Land of the Toraja or Tator, is a regency in South Sulawesi, Indonesia. The home of Toraja ethnic group people. The local government seat is in Makale, where the center of Toraja culture is in Rantepao. But now, Tana Toraja has been divided in two regencies that consist of Tana Toraja with capital is Makale and Toraja Utara with capital is Rantepao. Toraja tribe is the local inhabitan in Tana Toraja, which are live in the mountain areas and maintain a typical lifestyle…

The Torajan And The Way They Exist

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Toraja People Toraja people are the indigenous people who live in highland of South Sulawesi, Indonesia. The word Toraja comes from the Bugis language’s to riaja, meaning “people of the uplands” Befor the 20th Cntury, the Torajan was live in autonomous villages, where they practiced animism believe and was being untouched by outside world. During the early 1900s, a Dutch missionaries worked to convert Torajan highlander to Christianity. Since then, Tana Toraja was officially opened to the outside world, formerly in 1970, and became an icon of tourism in Indonesia.…