Family members of the deceased exhuming their ancestors' bodies and change their clothes as a way of remembering them. They then walk the dead around the village.That's because they've been dug up as part of a bizarre local ritual in a village in Indonesia that involves giving decomposed corpses a new look.
The ritual is held once every few years when family members gather to clean the graves and change the clothes of their deceased relatives to honor their spirits
This family remember their loved one by digging up his grave every three years
Family members carry a coffin containing the preserved body of their relative after putting a new set of clothing on it
A family member touches the preserved body of his relative during a traditional ritual called Ma'nene in Tana Toraja, Sulawesi island, Indonesia
Locals believe dead family members are still with them, even if they died hundreds of years ago
Villagers bind cloth rolls containing bodies in front of a stone grave called Liang
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