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City 6 years ago

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Crammed Jakarta pushes the dead to share space

At least 16 public cemeteries in Jakarta no longer open new burial plots. Instead, the cemeteries only bury on existing plots.

City 6 years ago

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Vacant land graveyard for old, rusty vehicles in Greater Jakarta

Old buses or vans can either be repainted as a non-public bus or transformed into other forms of metalwork and given back to the owner. The policy has been implemented as the Jakarta administration does not have the necessary measures to process the metal waste.

National 6 years ago

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Yogyakarta in spotlight as more crosses desecrated

At least 11 wooden crosses at the Bethesda Hospital cemetery were found either missing, damaged or partially burned on Sunday.

Politics 7 years ago

Political differences hound cousins beyond grave

The remains of Masri Dunggio, who was buried 26 years ago, and his granddaughter Siti Aisyah, who was buried last year, were exhumed from a graveyard in the village of South Toto owned by Masri's cousin Awano on Saturday, following a political dispute between Awano and Masri's family.

SE Asia 7 years ago

No rest for the dead: Singapore digs up graves for highways

When Singapore's government said it would exhume about 4,000 graves in the defunct Bukit Brown cemetery for an eight-lane highway, an unusually vocal campaign grew quickly to save one of the last remaining artefacts of the past in the modern city.

National 7 years ago

6 intolerance cases in Yogyakarta this year

An alliance of civil society groups has recorded that there were at least 10 unresolved cases of intolerance in the province, six of which occurred this year.

National 7 years ago

Yogyakarta governor apologizes for wooden cross incident

The Yogyakarta governor delivered a mea culpa three days after an incident that has sparked national outrage and forced the usually restrained Catholic Church to release one of its strongest statements against the authorities for allegedly failing to protect minority groups.

National 7 years ago

Catholic Church warns against rising intolerance in Yogyakarta

The Catholic Church has responded to the incident in Purbayan, Kotagede, Yogyakarta, in which local residents cut the top off a cross-shaped headstone on a Catholic’s grave and prevented his family from holding prayers.