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As of 2007, the cemetery is at full capacity. To deal with the lack of graveyard space, common throughout Jakarta, families have begun using a single plot for several family members, stacking them on top of each other. Another method proposed is reassigning the 18,000 graves that have been abandoned
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in the city and to eliminate the “spooky” perception of cemeteries. Although the government stated that families were notified, some families of those interred were not. The mass-produced new gravestones at times misspelled the names of the interred.
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Maintenance is done by self-employed gravekeepers, who receive funds from the families of those interred. The gravekeepers generally do not attend to the graves of families who do not pay them.
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program to ensure the graves in Karet Bivak followed the rules for gravestones as outlined by a 2007 bylaw. By September 2009 the government had replaced 2,000 graves with plain gray
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and grassy mounds. The head of the Jakarta Parks and Cemetery Agency, Ery Basworo, noted that the program was also to improve
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Although the cemetery is often devoid of visitors, during
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Coordinates
6°12′10″S 106°48′51″E / 6.20269°S 106.81410°E / -6.20269; 106.81410
Jakarta
Central Jakarta
Ramadhan

nationalist revolutionaries
government of Jakarta
tombstones
water retention
Benyamin Sueb
Bing Slamet
Chairil Anwar
Chairul Saleh
Fatmawati
Sukarno
National Hero of Indonesia
HIM Damsyik
Hadi Thayeb
Ministry of Foreign Affairs
Iwan Tirta
Lies Noor
Mimi Mariani
Mohammad Hoesni Thamrin
National Hero of Indonesia
Nurbani Yusuf
Sumitro Djojohadikusumo

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