Lokomata is situated on the side of Mt. Sesean approx. 1400 meters above sea level and has one of the most spectacular burial sites in that burial caves are chiseled in a huge rock.
Back in 1480 a young man by the name of Kiding made the first grave in this rock for his deceased father-in-law Pong Raga. The next graves were hewn out of this cliff in 1675 to accept the bodies of Kombong and Lembang, later followed by those of Rubak, Datu Bua' and others.
The first Christians in Toraja followed the western habit of burying the dead in the ground as they believed that human beings were created from soil and should be returned to it. Today, however, they have reverted to the traditional way of burying the dead in natural graves (liang) or man-made tombs (patane). People consider the land too precious to be used for cemeteries. Now there are more than 60 stone graves whilst the rock rapidly changes its appearance with time as more and more caves are being made, each requiring between 6 and 12 months of hard work.