Illegal burial fees

Illegal burial fees

From Koran Tempo

A Jakarta councillor has questioned the fee for the burial of a citizen in the capital. The city administration has allocated Rp 150,000 per person for digging and filling a grave. He wondered why some people had been asked to pay Rp 1 million a person.

This happened to my family. When my elder brother died and was buried in the Pondok Kopi public cemetery, Kedoya, West Jakarta, I had to pay Rp 950,000 in burial costs.

After several days, my brother's grave was messed up by cemetery guards because I did not buy grass from them to cover the grave mound. In the city, ordinary people are in trouble even after they die.

RONALD PUAR Jakarta