Ma’nene’ Toraja 2025 (Lembang Sereale)

Ma’nene’ Toraja Ritual at Lembang Sereale. Kecamatan Tikala

Date: 15-20 September 2025.

The Ma’nene Ritual is a traditional ritual in Tana Toraja where the bodies of Toraja family ancestors will be cleaned, replaced with clothes and cloth. Ma’nene’ is a traditional ritual in Toraja culture. This ritual is a ritual in which corpses that are tens or even hundreds of years old are removed from the grave to be cleaned and changed into clothes and cloth. This traditional ritual is included in the traditional Rambu Solo’ (death) ceremony.

This ritual begins with family members coming to Patane to collect the bodies of relatives who have died. Patane is a house-shaped grave where bodies are kept.