During the day, the cemetery is now a lively place, as displaced people from surrounding neighborhoods come to wash at its pumps and use its outdoor toilets.
Children run and shout as clusters of mourners gather to bury their dead. At least two of the burials today were of people who had died of illnesses in the upper stories of flooded houses.
Iim, 48, said she had found shelter, like many people, in a mosque, and had come to the cemetery to wash her clothes and visit friends.
“I wouldn’t spend the night here if you paid me,” she said.
Cemetery Offers Refuge After Flood in Indonesia (New York Times)