In mid-2017, an article published on the web site Women's News (WNews.world) gained notoriety among social media users, thanks to its outlandish claim that an Indonesian woman deceased for three years ...

The Toraja people of southern Sulawesi, one of Indonesia’s largest islands, are known for their elaborate death rituals, which include preserving and exhuming the dead. Relatives retrieve a coffin ...

In most cultures, when a person dies, their bodies are either burnt or buried in a grave, but people of the Toraja ethnic group live and walk among the dead. It might shock people of other cultures, ...

Earlier this month, hundreds of people in South Sulawesi joined in celebrating traditional Indonesian dances during the annual Toraja cultural festival. Toraja is an indigenous group in the ...