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        "msgid": "bandung-lacks-space-for-burials-1447893297",
        "date": "2000-02-25 00:00:00",
        "title": "Bandung lacks space for burials",
        "author": null,
        "source": "JP",
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        "summary": "Bandung lacks space for burials BANDUNG: The West Java capital of Bandung lacks open space for public cemeteries, an official said here on Thursday. The head of the Bandung burial service agency, Goesti Djafar, said the administration had tried to acquire more land for burials over the past 10 years, but to no avail. \"We need an additional 2.4 hectares per annum for graveyards, based on the fact that an average of 6,000 people die every year, or between 15 and 17 per day,\" Goesti said.",
        "content": "<p>Bandung lacks space for burials<\/p>\n<p>BANDUNG: The West Java capital of Bandung lacks open space for<br>\npublic cemeteries, an official said here on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>The head of the Bandung burial service agency, Goesti Djafar,<br>\nsaid the administration had tried to acquire more land for<br>\nburials over the past 10 years, but to no avail.<\/p>\n<p>\"We need an additional 2.4 hectares per annum for graveyards,<br>\nbased on the fact that an average of 6,000 people die every year,<br>\nor between 15 and 17 per day,\" Goesti said.<\/p>\n<p>He said existing graveyards had not been optimally used<br>\nbecause relatives of the deceased did not take care of the graves<br>\nand failed to pay dues.<\/p>\n<p>The town now has 13 cemeteries in which there are some 390,000<br>\ngraves occupying more than 12,000 hectares of land. (25\/sur)<\/p>",
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