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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.
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.
City 5 years ago
Jakarta sets up cemetery for additional COVID-19 graves as burial space running out
The Jakarta administration is setting up a 2-hectare plot of land in Rorotan public cemetery in North Jakarta for COVID-19 graves as burial space for victims of the coronavirus in the capital city is running out.
City 7 years ago
Jakarta Forestry Agency gets Rp 104 billion for expansion of public cemeteries
The Jakarta City Council’s budget committee agreed on Thursday to provide the Jakarta Forestry Agency with Rp 104 billion (US$7 million) in funds for the expansion of public cemeteries and to add more cemetery facilities.
City 7 years ago
Parties not allowed at public cemeteries: Jakarta administration
The Jakarta Administration's Forestry, Parks and Cemeteries Agency forbids residents from holding events at public cemeteries, the agency's head said, responding to a viral video showing a city graveyard being used as a party venue.
