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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.
Family Matters 4 months 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 recover their history, relink their lineage and rediscover what it means to remember those who came before.
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.
