Indonesia's Toraja culture has a unique summer ritual: changing the clothes of the corpses of their ancestors.

The mummified remains of dead relatives are treated as if they are merely sick. Even after burial, corpses are exhumed and carefully cleaned, and their clothes changed. Sometimes, the dead are offered food, cigarettes, or gifts.

The ritual, known locally as Ma'nene, happens every one to three years after harvest. It is a process unique to the region, where bodies are treated with the full respect of a living family member.

Feasting and sharing stories about their loved ones also characterises Ma'nene.

The footage was filmed in Rindingalo, a remote village in Sulawesi Selatan, Indonesia, on July 7.

unique traditions in the world, manene is a tradition of decorating and changing the body clothes that dozens or even hundreds of years that remain sustainable, and only in toraja, south sulawesi.

rituals decorate the corpse, a tradition that can only be found in north toraja district, south sulawesi. a tradition of honoring ancestors, by changing clothes that have died for decades to hundreds of years, which is not present in any country in the world, only in toraja.

rituals held once a year every July and August, in this rindingallo district fall in July and August each year, which becomes a unique custom procession and the steps our own eyes face.

this customary manena ritual becomes a tradition to honor and reward devotion to ancestors in Toraja, especially in the district of rindingallo, north toraja district.

interviews, on behalf of, taruk bua, community leaders Toraja, said that this tradition is a form of love affection for the deceased ancestors, and in this tradition there are hundreds of bodies yan cleaned and decorated.

Peak ritual manene simultaneously held at some point in rindingallo district.

hundreds of corpses buried and buried in patane, reopened from corpse, then cleansed, after which the corpse will be dried in the sun for several minutes until it is dry, so the corpse remains durable and put back into the tomb

this tradition has become a hereditary heritage that continues and remains preserved by Toraja tribe, which is not in other parts of the world, and become one of the tourist alternative for domestic and foreign tourists.