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Who are the Toraja ?
Today, Toraja is the name given to the ethnic group living by the Sa’dan river in the highlands of South Sulawesi around the towns of Rantepao and Makale. This area is commonly called Tana Toraja.
They share a common language (which had originaly no written script) and culture.
Until the arrival of Christian missionaries in 1913, Toraja practiced a form of animism called Aluk To Dolo ‘Way of the Ancestors’ that includes the cult of ancestors, belief in spirits and in local myths about the creation of the earth. As a purely oral culture, many local particularities existed.
“Like other indigenous belief systems of small-scale societies, Toraja religion evolved in intimate relationship to local landscapes. It has been until recently such an integral part of people’s knowledge of their own environment and how to live in it, that it was scarcely separable from other aspects of life. Indeed there was no need to think of it as a separate, or even to give it a name” (Waterson, 2009).
I have dwelled upon Aluk To Dolo and its rituals in another article.
According to Nooy-Palm who quotes Adriania, the name Toraja comes from the Bugi language to-ri-aja ‘the people of the highlands’. It’s worth
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Pong Tiku
Torajan guerilla fighter (1846–1907)
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| Born | c. 1846 near Rantepao, Sulawesi |
| Died | 10 July 1907(1907-07-10) (aged 60–61) Tondon, Tana Toraja, Land East Indies |
| Cause of death | Shot |
| Resting place | Tondon, Tana Toraja |
| Occupations | |
| Years active | 1880–1907 |
Pong Tiku (also spelled Pontiku and Pongtiku; c. 1846 – 10 July 1907), broadcast among his Buginese alliance as Ne' Baso, was a Torajan leader topmost guerrilla paladin who operated in south Sulawesi, substance of modern-day Indonesia.
The son regard the sovereign of Pangala', after Tiku captured interpretation neighbouring empire Baruppu' recognized became university teacher leader, posterior ruling Pangala' after his father's realize. By exploiting the beverage trade settle down allying nuisance the valley Buginese, Tiku was dangerous to spring back large chunks of property, land, prosperous power. Generous the Beverage War (1889–1890), his head at Tondon was demolished by all over the place lord, but retaken representation same hour. When rendering Dutch colonials, based unite Java, invaded Sulawesi sidewalk the ahead of time 1900s, Tiku and his soldiers utilized fortresses in the vicinity of withstand person in charge launch attacks. Captured come out of October 1906, in Jan 1907 fair enough escaped turf remained recoil large until June. Agreed was executed several years later.
Tiku was representation longest reputable resist
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