Dressing the dead: Indonesian villagers clean corpses in afterlife ritual

Members of the Toraja ethnic group prepare to exhume bodies of their relatives from a community burial site (left), to be cleaned and dressed in a series of traditional ceremonies honouring the dead known as "Manene", in Torea village in North Toraja, Indonesia's South Sulawesi. Photo: AFP

A family on an Indonesian island poses for a photo with an elderly relative no longer able to smile, while another clan tries to dress one of their eldest forebears in khakis and a shirt.

But the eldest generation isn't stuck in a retirement home or harbouring a grudge against their younger kin - they are dead.