‘I’ve seen too many bodies’: Jakarta gravediggers chart Indonesia’s Covid battle

Workers like Darsiman sometimes work 16-hour days in the mud to handle the coffins brought out from a line of waiting ambulances

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It is only noon and the grave diggers at Rorotan cemetery have buried 23 bodies of Covid-19 patients since they started work at 7am.

At least two excavators are on standby because the hard soil in the area makes it difficult to dig with just shovels.