COVID-19 Cemetery Capacity Depletes, DKI Prepares Additional 10 Hectares Of Land At Rorotan TPU

JAKARTA - The DKI Jakarta Provincial Government has again increased the capacity of the COVID-19 special cemetery at the Rorotan Public Cemetery (TPU). This is because the cemetery at the Rorotan TPU is starting to fill up.

In recent times, lines of ambulances lined up. This condition really happened, the medical staff to the scouring officers were overwhelmed.

Currently, the ranks of the DKI Provincial Government are starting to finalize an area of 10 hectares in this TPU located in Cilincing, North Jakarta.

"A 10-hectare land is being prepared to be used as a burial ground for COVID-19 victims," wrote the official account of the DKI Jakarta Provincial Government, quoted on Thursday, July 15.

The land ripening method is carried out in two ways. First, bring in the soil from dredging reservoirs around the location such as JGC Reservoir, Pulomas Reservoir, and others.

The second method is to use land from the dredging of the reservoir, which is planned to be built at the Rorotan TPU.

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"The Water Resources Department itself has prepared 14 units of dump trucks and 3 units of heavy equipment for this activity," he wrote.

The Rorotan TPU land has a total area of 25 hectares. Rorotan TPU was first used on March 26, 2021 as a burial site for bodies who died due to COVID-19.

When it was first used, the land that was cleared was only 3 hectares. Now, there will be an additional 10 hectares of land that is being matured.

In addition, the DKI Provincial Government has also begun to dredge the soil at the Bambu Apus TPU as a COVID-19 burial ground. Head of the East Jakarta Parks and Forests Sub-department, Christian Hutagalung explained, the addition of the tomb plots at the Bambu Apus TPU was carried out by filling the remaining unused land.

"It is planned to fill it with soil for the plots of tombs. So the addition of the tomb plots is not an expansion of the land," said Christian Hutagalung.

Christian said the addition of the tomb plot was made because the Bambu Apus TPU could no longer accommodate the bodies of COVID-19.

In fact, according to Christian, the land for COVID-19 bodies at the Bambu Apus TPU has been fully occupied since March 2021. This makes the burial of COVID-19 bodies carried out in public TPUs with an overlapping system.