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Toraja Funeral, people can see your social stage from this moment..

I would say that I was really curious to know more about this moment, yes definitely Toraja Funeral. It has been three couple months from the first time when  I came here in Toraja which it splits to two districts, Tana Toraja and North Toraja Districts.  There are some differences between Tana Toraja and North Toraja, even thought this area was one district as Tana Toraja District. It spat about last 2009s.  Last three couple days I was seeing the funeral. It was scary for me due to many of buffaloes dead and people looked like happy to do it. I was wondering when some people were killing the buffaloes. They were pretty much laughing and saying “Hey the buffalo come here, don’t go anywhere after he killed a poor buffalo and the buffalo was much angry to him. They killed the buffaloes were so wicked and cruel, I thought that it would make the buffalo so scare. But again it was because the ‘adat’ rules. They had to kill the buffalo like that no excusin