Gravediggers toil as Jakarta prepares third COVID cemetery

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A Jakarta cemetery worker prepares a new grave in April. © Reuters

ERWIDA MAULIA, Nikkei staff writer

JAKARTA -- Muhaemin looked on as a dozen men dug fresh graves and ambulances brought yet more bodies to the vast Pondok Ranggon cemetery he supervises in eastern Jakarta.

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