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Graves over homes: Jakarta’s cemetery crisis pushes out poor residents

Jakarta 3 months ago

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Graves over homes: Jakarta’s cemetery crisis pushes out poor residents

To deal with the shortage of burial plots for the dead, Jakarta is planning to revitalize and expand several public cemeteries across the city at the expense of poor residents who have lived among the graves on city-owned land for decades.

Accommodating the dead: Jakarta faces grave shortage crisis

Jakarta 4 months ago

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Accommodating the dead: Jakarta faces grave shortage crisis

The Jakarta parks agency puts the remaining number of available graves at just 118,000, while over 86 percent of public cemeteries are at full capacity and the remainder are at 80 percent capacity, leaving the city's dead in dire need of a final resting place.

Three colonial-era burials found in pre-Hispanic Peru sanctuary

Art & Culture 3 years ago

Three colonial-era burials found in pre-Hispanic Peru sanctuary

A team of Peruvian archaeologists uncovered three burials from the Spanish colonial period on top of a pre-Hispanic temple, which may be up to 500 years old.

'Bunda" Dorce’s burial saga: Her conundrum, or ours?

Academia 4 years ago

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'Bunda" Dorce’s burial saga: Her conundrum, or ours?

Let’s not forget the MUI’s origins. It was set up in 1975 by the authoritarian New Order government to enable the Soeharto regime to control Muslims.

Death rate in Jakarta near pre-pandemic level as outbreak eases

Indonesia 4 years ago

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Death rate in Jakarta near pre-pandemic level as outbreak eases

Jakarta recorded 16,122 deaths, more than five times the pre-pandemic death rate, when Delta hit the city in July.

'I want to see this all end soon': Gravediggers' endless mental, physical challenges amid COVID-19

Lifestyle 4 years ago

'I want to see this all end soon': Gravediggers' endless mental, physical challenges amid COVID-19

Twelve-hour shifts and facing the constant wrath of grieving family members, working as a COVID-19 gravedigger can take an unfathomable mental and physical toll.

India's holy Ganges river gives up its coronavirus dead

World 4 years ago

India's holy Ganges river gives up its coronavirus dead

Families in India's north and east gave up the bodies of their loved ones to the river or buried them in shallow graves on its banks, unable to afford the cost of funeral pyres at the height of the outbreak in April and May.

Egyptian start-up offers end-to-end undertaking service

Lifestyle 4 years ago

Egyptian start-up offers end-to-end undertaking service

An Egyptian start-up offering a full package of funeral and burial services to clients it finds at hospitals.

The earliest known human burial discovered in Africa

Science & Tech 4 years ago

The earliest known human burial discovered in Africa

The sunken pit, in a cave complex along the coast of Kenya, was bereft of ornaments, offerings or ochre-coloured clay carvings found in the region's more recent Stone Age graves, they detailed in the journal Nature.

Sri Lanka's plan to bury Muslim Covid-19 victims on islet sparks outcry

World 5 years ago

Sri Lanka's plan to bury Muslim Covid-19 victims on islet sparks outcry

Colombo banned burials of Covid-19 victims in April, despite expert assurances they would not spread the virus, implementing a policy of forced cremations.

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