IDNEWSNOW.COM, Jakarta – The Jakarta Provincial Government is preparing the Rorotan Public Cemetery in North Jakarta as a burial website for individuals who died from Covid-19 Authorities says that the burial website, 20,000 square meters in size, is being prepared.
The Jakarta’s Bina Marga Office head, Hari Nugroho, said on Monday that they are dealing with the landfill procedure and producing a 210- meter road towards the burial ground.
The work began on September 17, and is targeted for completion in December this year.
” With a size of 2 hectares, we approximate the cemetery will be able to have 6,000 graves,” Hari stated on Monday, September28
In Jakarta, the number of funeral services and burials with Covid-19 procedures are rather alarming. The provincial federal government tape-recorded that 6,248 people have been buried under Covid-19 protocols from March up until September25
In the month of September alone, the capital recorded 1,372 bodies were buried according to Covid-19 protocol, the highest given that the coronavirus reaches Indonesia.
This triggered the government to prepare a new burial site for Covid-19 deaths, as the land accessibility in Pondok Ranggon and Tegal Alur Cemeteries is reducing.
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