News Article(permalink)
Features Editors: Hong Kong: Liz Thomas +852 2829 6211 Paris: Kate Millar +33 1 4041 4636 We are offering the following item: + Bali's open-air burials endure despite virus health crisis Health-virus-Indonesia-Bali-culture-death,FEATURE TRUNYAN, Indonesia For centuries Bali's Trunyanese people have left their dead to decompose in the open air, the bodies placed in bamboo cages until only the skeletons remain. It is a ritual they haven't given up -- even as the coronavirus pandemic upends burial practices worldwide. 750 words by Agnes Anya. Pictures by Sonny Tumbelaka. Video by Agnes Anya. afp
Author: