Taking Care of the Forgotten - Iyok the Grave Digger
Submitted by Thomas on November 27, 2009 – 10:17 pmNo Comment
A native of Karawang, Sugih bin Jaiman, 57, is known by his colleagues as ‘Pak Iyok’.
He came to Jakarta in 1993 and works as a grave digger at the Kampung Kandang cemetery. Now he and his three sons are among the very few willing to bury the corpses of anonymous people.
Photography by Rony Zakaria, Audio by Okky Ardya W.
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