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    The start of the procession.
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    The Funeral - The Procession

    July 8, 2019 in Indonesia

    After eating lunch, everybody gathered around a hillside as the parade began.

    The parade comprised of some relatives carrying a long red cloth, the coffins of the two siblings (each housed in a small custom built funeral house; the first coffin was tied to the red cloth), and finally the widow of the dead man and another woman who were both carried on sedan chairs. Whoever built the burial house did not account for their height and so the procession had to double back and go down another slope when it could not go under a gantry.

    The tau tau of the two deceased were brought around the procession route first and then they were placed at a vantage point to view the remainder of the procession.

    My YouTube video of the funeral highlights: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kBXUIJC97CQ&amp…

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