Troja
(JITHENDRA ANTONIO)
The Toraja are an ethnic group indigenous to a mountainous region of
South Sulawesi, Indonesia. Their population is approximately 650,000,
of which 450,000 still live in the regency of Tana Toraja. Most of the
population is Christian, and others are Muslim or have local animist
beliefs known as aluk ("the way"). Torajans are renowned for their
elaborate funeral rites, burial sites carved into rocky cliffs,
massive peaked-roof traditional houses known as tongkonan, and
colorful wood carvings. Toraja funeral rites are important social
events, usually attended by hundreds of people and lasting for several
days. Before the 20th century, Torajans lived in autonomous villages,
where they practised animism and were relatively untouched by the
outside world. In the early 1900s, Dutch missionaries first worked to
convert Torajan highlanders to Christianity. When the Tana Toraja
regency was further opened to the outside world in the 1970s, it
became an icon of tourism in Indonesia: it was exploited by tourism
developers and studied by anthropologists. By the 1990s, when tourism
peaked, Toraja society had evolved significantly, from its
agricultural beginnings into a largely Christian society.
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