When your dead body is rejected everywhere

Laid to rest: Workers burying a Covid-19 victim at the Tegal Alur public cemetery in West Jakarta. On average, 10 to 15 bodies of coronavirus victims are buried in the cemetery every day. — The Jakarta Post/ANN

FIRST of all, I should make it clear that I am writing about a human tragedy, which has unfolded as many dead bodies here in Indonesia and in other parts of the world are not able to be buried according to the deceased families’ wishes amid this Covid-19 pandemic.

Let us hope the horror will soon end, that the figure for fatalities dramatically falls and the number of people recovering from this virus rises exponentially.