Discrimination in Death

The planned bylaw in Deli Serdang to tax graveyards will only apply to Chinese cemeteries. This discrimination must be outright rejected.

March 6, 2007

TRY not to die in Deli Serdang. This advice is specifically aimed at the ethnic Chinese, most unfortunately. For the past four years, the Chinese residents of Deli Serdang in North Sumatra province had been paying for gravesites a much higher price than other residents. A revision of the local bylaw currently being debated in the Deli Serdang Regional House of Representatives to raise the taxes of Chinese cemeteries would appear to confirm that d

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