This is a very unique ritual and known as an old tradition in Toraja. I am personally interested in this event because it is started from the beliefs, moral values and law that form Torajan’s culture. The title is “The Ancestors Memories” giving respect to our ancestors varies depending on cultures and beliefs. The Torajans have their own way with a ritual called “Ma’ nene”, where they clean and put clothes on the dead bodies that have been buried forten to hundreds of years. They believed that the “Ma’ nene”ritual would bring prosperity to their village.
Yoese Mariam is a photographer who lives in Jakarta Indonesia. Her profession is Geoscientist who also takes photographs and is passionate about visual storytelling. Aside of travelling and hiking, her love photography started in line with her professional path and later devoted her time to photograhing cultural and documentary subjects. She has attended photography workshops. She is one of the selected participants of Panna Future Talents 2022, a one-year mentorship photography program run by PannaFoto Institute to foster the development of visual storytelling.
