1,000 graves to be moved

1,000 graves to be moved

JAKARTA (JP): Over 1,000 graves in Menteng Pulo public
cemetery in Setiabudi, South Jakarta, will be relocated to the
Kampung Kandang cemetery in the same mayoralty next month, as the
city's cemetery agency plans to develop the area into a public
park.

Hariono Seno, head of the agency, said that the project to
turn the 4,500 square-meter Menteng Pulo cemetery into a park
would cost nearly Rp 280 million, according to the city's
official website BeritaKota.com.

Descendants of the dead buried there are required to register
the graves between Sept. 8 and Sept. 21, while the process of
moving them will begin on Oct.11.

Out of 1,003 graves in the Menteng Pulo cemetery, only 147
still have a land use permit.

A park will be developed in the area due to its location in a
strategic area at the heart of the city.

It will be one of 30 parks to be built by the city
administration.

Head of the city landscape agency, Dadang Ruskandar, said that
statues of national heroes will be erected in the parks, which
are expected to be the lungs of the city.