A custom ceremony commemorates death in Mentawai

A number of Sikerei (support Mentawai) runs rituals in front of a pig that will be slaughtered at the ceremony commemorating death in Dusun Onga, Matotonan Village, South Siberut, Mentawai Islands, West Sumatra, Saturday (5/7/2025). The indigenous ceremony commemorates the death (kamateijat) or called ritual Eâ’s father is a self-cleaning activity of bad things according to the trust of the indigenous people of Mentawai followed by the family and all members of the uma (Mentawai house) of a person who has died the world. ANTARA FOTO/Iggoy el Fitra/foc.

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