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South Tangerang administration expects more revenue from cemeteries
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Workers carry out maintenance work at the Pondok Rangon public cemetery in East Jakarta on July 26, 2017. (Antara Foto/Hafidz Mubarak A)
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he South Tangerang administration is expecting to collect more revenue from public cemeteries. According to the South Tangerang Housing, Residency and Land Agency, the city administration expects to receive Rp 200 million (US$14,500) from the cemetery levy this year.
“The figure is higher than last year’s target, which was Rp 150 million,” said the agency’s cemetery division head Nazmudin, as quoted by wartakota.tribunnews.com on Thursday.
As of March, the city had received around Rp 78 million in revenue from seven public cemeteries in the municipality, equal to 39 percent of the year’s total target.
An agency staff member, Obarudin, explained that the levy that the family of the deceased should pay ranged from Rp 100,000 to Rp 250,000 for the first three years. The families need to pay another Rp 150,000 to keep their late relatives’ grave for another three years.
The levy is paid every three years. (vla)
