source of disease. The bodies of the dead are not buried immediately, but stored in tongkonan(central room, remember?). Before the funeral ceremony, the bodies are deemed as ‘the sick’. To avoid rotting, the corpse is embalmed with trasitional herb, a kind of formalin, which is made of betel leaf and banana sap. Before funeral ceremony is going to be conducted, the corpse is stored in barns for 3 days. Toraja has traditional cof…

n old coffins and skulls and bones of humans who had been buried in that place. Coffins are stuffed in the corners of the cliff some are even hanged. Some sculptures are also made for the buried bodies that resembles the corpse’s face. The sculptures are equipped with fashion, clothes and gloves, which are adjusted by gender of the corpse. The sculpture is called ‘tau-tau’. The cemetery consists of three levels. The …

Java is the name of an island in Indonesia (yes, some of us also know it as a programming language, but we will not discuss it here, not here, not now). Java is the most populated island, the island with the most population, and the thirteenth largest island in the world. It has an area of 138,793.6 km2 with a population of about 124 million inhabitants with the density of 979 inhabitants per km2. Java population is mostly Javanese and Sundanese…

Indonesian Furnitures and Handicraft have the excellence of complexion and characteristic that can’t be found on other countries. Moreover, the strength and uniqueness of these Indonesian original products are eco-friendly (ecolabel) certified . There are three basic concepts underlying the campaign of Green Furniture of Indonesia, namely the pro-environment, pro-people, and legal. This means that Indonesian furniture handicrafts are pr…