Ranking ceremony Rambu Solo

Ceremony Rambu Solo divided into 4 levels based on a social level Toraja, namely:

1. Dipasang Bongi: the funeral ceremony was conducted in just one night.
2. Dipatallung Bongi: the funeral ceremony held for three nights and the deceased took place at home and do the cutting of animals.
3. Dipalimang Bongi: the funeral ceremony held for five nights and implemented around the house and the animals killed to make the cut.
4. Dipapitung Bongi: the funeral ceremony held for seven nights at the cutting is done every day the animals.


Rambu Solo is habitual the ritual society of Tolls Toraja of the death that aims to respect the alcohol and to the people that give death to the alcohol, that becomes to immortality with its ancestors in a tourist center of health, Puya calls, that is located in the south where people live. The ceremony often also is called the ceremony of the accomplishment of the death. Therefore one says, because they consider the people who really died new dead after all the procession of the ceremony is satisfied. If no, then they considered the person who only died like the “weak”or “patient”, and he still tried like alive people, that is to say the bed and the given plates of the food and the water laining down. in, even the chat.
Therefore, local people consider this ceremony very important, because the ceremony of the perfection will determine the position of this alcohol is the person who died, as if the alcohol soul often come (bombo), the soul it reaches the level of Gods (membali puang), or makes a deity the landlord (deata). Against this background, the ritual solo signature in “having”, so that the community in any will perform him Tolls Toraja of the way as form of presentation to their parents who died.
Certain ritual samples of “Rambu solo” Hilarity by the social situation of the family who died, measured by the number of sacrificed animal. Plus the buffalo of is slaughtered., the social situation more discharge. Generally, to the noble families, the number of buffalo that is slaughtered ties the reach between 24-100, whereas the average range of 8 tails of the buffalo added 50 pigs. Previously, the ceremony can be only realized by the noble family. Nevertheless, according to the development of economic, social layers slope or the position is based not more on, but they are based on the education level and they vulnerable economic. At the moment, much people of the people of Toraja of the social layers normal to get to be rich, so she can realize this ceremony.

The tip of the ceremony is called the solo ceremony of Rante of the light lead in a “special field”. Rante in this ceremony is there varies series of rituals that they always attract visitors, such as to pack the corpse (ma'tudan, mebalun), placing the ornaments of the thread and the silver of gold in the chest (ma'roto), the diminution is to bury for the barn (ma'popengkalo), and the one of process remains to the last one pengusungan of the health (ma'palao).
Interesting, disembelih of a way that is very unique and is people typical Tolls Toraja, that is to say neck of the buffalo of the buffalo cut with one hardly tebasan. They type the buffalo of disembelih that the buffalo is not normal, only bule of the buffalo (bonga tedong) that the ranks of prices between 10-50 million perekor. In addition, there is also a very imposing landscape, when the convoy is being pelayat the corpse to accompany Puya, to seem of a distance a long red giant of the scarf of the cloth extends it between pelayat.
Town of Bonoran, Ke'te Kesu’ of the town, district of the Kesu’, Sub-Province Tana Toraja, Sulawesi of the south, Indonesia.

It tolls Toraja North is located of approximately 350 kilometers of Makassar. Ravel de Macassar to Tolls Toraja can use the air and earth routes. The trajectory less than adopted the Earth with the private vehicles and the public transport during labih 8 hours, whereas the lines of air go with the pioneering flight by 2 hours. at arrival in Tolls Toraja, direct visitors to the city of Padang District.From this city to the Bonoran town, adopted at the time of trip of 30 minutes with a distance of 4 kilometers using a public vehicle.