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Bali's open-air burials endure despite COVID-19 crisis

Unlike many in the rest of Hindu-majority Bali, the Trunyanese -- who fuse animist beliefs and traditional village customs with their own interpretation of Hinduism -- do not bury or cremate their dead

For centuries Bali's Trunyanese people have left their dead to decompose in the open, the bodies placed in bamboo cages until only the skeletons remain.

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