Jakarta Cemetery Stacks Bodies in Old Tombs as Burial Area for Covid-19 Victim Runs Out Quickly

This aerial picture from Wednesday shows Pondok Ranggon Public Cemetery in East Jakarta has actually lacked burial space for Covid-19 victims. (SP Photo/Joanito de Saojoao)

Jakarta Pondok Ranggon Public Cemetery, a burial ground in East Jakarta booked for the Covid-19 victims, has lacked space and turned to stacking the victims’ bodies in existing tombs, as the number of pandemic deaths continues to increase in the capital.

” The funeral block for Covid for Muslims has been complete considering that 2 weeks earlier. The very best we can do now is to share a burial place if [the victims] are close member of the family,” Jayadi, an administrative officer at Pondok Ranggon, informed the World sibling publication BeritaSatu.com earlier today.

The capital has actually recorded 2,710 Covid-19 deaths up until now, however burial information suggested a lot more may have succumb to the pneumonia-like disease. The data revealed 9,085 individuals were buried under Covid-19 procedures from March 1 till Dec 2, Jakarta.

The capital’s overall variety of burials, consisting of those with Covid-19 treatments and those without, reached 238 each day in November, practically triple its historical mean for the past 10 years of 85 burials.

Jayadi stated there were keeping in mind the Pondok Ranggon cemetery could do as options to expand the cemetery has been tired.

Jakarta administration last expanded Pondok Ranggon cemetery between August and September, adding around 13,300 square meters of burial ground for Covid-19 victims.

Aside From 30 more tombs for Christian burials, the cemetery might only offer staked burials for Muslims, whose close family members currently buried there, Jayadi stated.

Besides that, Jayadi suggested Jakartans looking for burials in Tegal Alur. Guv Anies Baswedan designated Pondok Ranggon and Tegal Alur as special cemeteries for Covid-19 victims in March.

” There are still around 600 plots of TPU Tegal Alur for the bodies of Covid-19,” he stated.

Siti Hasni, the head of the Jakarta funeral service division, declined to discuss Jakarta’s burial ground concerns.