Developers to make room for graves<\/p>\n
Theresia Sufa, The Jakarta Post\/Bogor<\/p>\n
The urgent need to expand public cemeteries has prompted the
\nBogor municipal administration to enforce Bylaw No. 15\/1999 on
\ndevelopers' provision of two percent of land for graveyards.<\/p>\n
\"The administration plans to establish Muslim cemeteries of
\nfive hectares total across five districts. Developers processing
\ntheir real estate development permits through the administration
\nare required to give two percent of their land toward the
\ncemetery,\" Bogor sanitation and parks official Dodi Effendi said
\nrecently.<\/p>\n
There are about 150 developers operating in the 11,850 hectare
\n(ha) city. However, Dodi did not mention whether sanctions would
\nbe imposed on developers that refused to allocate land for the
\ncemetery.<\/p>\n
At present, Bogor has two Muslim cemeteries: the 6.48 ha
\nDreded Cemetery on Jl. Pahlawan, South Bogor, and the 6.67 ha
\nBlender Cemetery at Tanah Sareal district. Burial plots in both
\ncemeteries have been full for the past few years -- 4,080 corpses
\nare buried in Blender and about 3,600 are buried in Dreded.<\/p>\n
In both cemeteries, the management must bury a new corpse in
\nthe same plot as an old grave or in the same plot as an unmarked
\ngrave.<\/p>\n
Dodi said the administration did not have the same problem
\nwith non-Muslim cemeteries, of which Bogor has two: the 2.18 ha
\nCipaku Cemetery and the 41.1 ha Gunung Gadung Cemetery. Most
\ngraveyards in the cemeteries belong to Jakartans.<\/p>\n
To maintain a plot at the Muslim cemetery, the family of the
\ndeceased must pay between Rp 17,000 (US$1.87) and Rp 45,000 every
\nyear for three years, while non-Muslim cemeteries charge from Rp
\n72,375 to Rp 235,000 under the same conditions.<\/p>\n
\"The fee for Muslims is lower, because they already pay other
\nfees for drawing up a death certificate at the subdistrict office
\nand for its processing by the cemetery management,\" Dodi said.<\/p>",
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