A day at the grave yard

Sunday, 15 June 2008
Yogyakarta, Indonesia

When I was in Solo, I spent some time at the village grave yard to check out the construction of a grave. It’s not a new grave. It is customary to wait with the grave construction until the person has been dead for 1000 days.

This grave yard is for any person from the village, belonging to any of the 5 official religions: Muslim, Buddhist, Hindu, Catholic, Protestant.

  1. Overview of the grave yard.
  2. Inspection of the grave before the construction work starts.
  3. Breakfast at the grave yard before the work starts.
  4. Preparation for the construction of the foundation of the grave.
  5. Unloading of the grave stone from the truck. It is a massive piece of rock, it does not have a cavity inside.
  6. This is the grave stone that will be put in place on top of the grave foundation. Born 1915, dead 19 September 2005. There is two shapes on top resembling stupas, since he was a Buddhist.
  7. Construction of the foundation. It will be semented to a flat surface before putting the grave stone on top.
  8. Construction.
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One response

  1. C comments:

    That’s my grandpa’s grave, im the only grandchild that couldnt make it to the 1000 memorial days, since I have a bussiness trip to Europe, but I was replaced by Rune and somehow my grandma likes him better…. :p

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