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Jakarta 1 week 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...

Editorial 1 month ago

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Grave matters ahead

In a sinking metropolis where land prices are among the nation’s highest, even the dead are no...

Family Matters 1 month ago

Inside Indonesia’s grave seekers: Tracing ancestors to find belonging

When family trees end in a lopped limb, a new generation of descendants is turning to cemeteries to ...

Jakarta 1 month 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 8...

Middle East and Africa 1 year ago

Gaza's overwhelmed undertakers stack 'graves on top of graves'

More than 10 months into the Gaza war, so many bodies are arriving at the cemetery in Deir el-Balah ...

Community 2 years ago

Understanding Chinese heritage through tomb exploration

A community explores ancient Chinese tombs to further delve into Indonesia’s Chinese history....

Community 3 years ago

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In US, forgotten black cemeteries rediscovered

The babies are gone and so are the veterans. Buried at the edge of an African-American cemetery in t...

Community 3 years ago

Moroccan Jews return to their roots with Meknes pilgrimage

Dozens of Jews travelled to the Moroccan city of Meknes this week for the first pilgrimage of its ki...

Art & Culture 4 years ago

'Eternal tribute': Salvadoran man replaces epitaphs with QR codes

Cemetery visitors can use their phones to scan the QR code, which links them to a website with a bio...

Art & Culture 4 years ago

Filipinos flock to cemeteries ahead of All Saints' Day closure

Thousands flocked to cemeteries in the Catholic-majority Philippines on Thursday for their last chan...

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