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The Forgotten
Wednesday, February 3, 2010
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Rony Zakaria | On Asia
Sugih bin Jaiman, 57, from Krawang, West Java, also known as Iyok, has been doing the dirty job of burying unknown bodies since 1993.
They are the unclaimed and unidentified bodies from the Cipto Mangunkusumo General Hospital, victims of crime or even road accidents, delivered from police-run hospitals. Sometimes they are residents of old people’s homes or mental institutions. Often, they come in fetid and decom
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