In the 1930s, Muslim lowlanders attacked the Torajans, resulting in widespread Christian conversion among those who sought to align themselves with the Dutch for political protection and to form a …

In the 1930s, Muslim lowlanders attacked the Torajans, resulting in widespread Christian conversion among those who sought to align themselves with the Dutch for political protection and to form a …

In the 1930s, Muslim lowlanders attacked the Torajans, resulting in widespread Christian conversion among those who sought to align themselves with the Dutch for political protection and to form a …

Today, tourism and remittances from migrant Torajans have made for major changes in the Toraja highland, giving the Toraja a celebrity status within Indonesia and enhancing Toraja ethnic group pride.

Since their conversion to Islam in the seventeenth century, the lowland peoples of South Sulawesi have used the term “Toraja” to refer broadly to all highland populations who continued to practice ancestral …

their proselytizing efforts had profound physical and psychological repercussions on the Toraja people. Their use of coercion, violence, and weaponry sparked widespread rejection and left lasting trauma …

In the 1930s, Muslim lowlanders attacked the Torajans, resulting in widespread Christian conversion among those who sought to align themselves with the Dutch for political protection and to form a …