Aluk Todolo: The Journey of Puang Matua’s Wisdom from Dormancy to Revival

Wiryadinata, Halim (2024) Aluk Todolo: The Journey of Puang Matua’s Wisdom from Dormancy to Revival. The International Journal of Religion and Spirituality in Society, 15 (2). pp. 263-277. ISSN 2154-8641

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Abstract

This article traces the journey of Puang Matua’s wisdom as a local religion from dormancy to revival in the digital era, thus becoming a universal guideline for the Toraja people in maintaining harmony, balance, conformity, and peace between the cosmos and society. Aluk Todolo is the ancestral religion of the Toraja ethnic group, which developed from a belief that the Toraja people came from heaven. Its concepts and teachings are not just in the understanding of epistemology but have become a mindset, behavior, and relationship with others, nature, and the Creator affecting society today. Those concepts are the life patterns that allow the Toraja people to worship the ancestral spirits, which Puang Matua (God the Highest) instructed. This understanding inherits knowledge and instructions for the Toraja people to carry out ceremonies in worshipping Puang Matua and ancestral spirits as the contents of dogma in the rites and rituals of Aluk Todolo. This study has been carried out using the sociology of religion approach by accessing primary sources: books, journal articles, academic writings, and old manuscripts. The study shows that digitalized people return to traditional religious values as their foothold to compromise their lives. This article concludes that indigenous religion, culture, and digital ethics reinforce each other. Keywords: Aluk Todolo, Puang Matua, Puang Matua’s Wisdom, Indigenous Religion

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