Residents carry coffins to cross the river, Kades: residents are normal …

KOMPAS.com – A video showing residents washing the coffin to cross the river to a public cemetery went viral on social media.

The incident occurred in Gorekanlor Hamlet, Cermenlerek Village, Kedamean District, Gresik, East Java.

Cermenlerek village chief Mochammad Suhadi said the incident occurred on Thursday (03/12/2020).

At that time, a Gorekanlor Hamlet resident named Kasti (71) died of illness on Wednesday (02/12/2020).

Kasti’s body was buried on Thursday (03/12/2020).

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Suhadi said that Kasti’s body could be buried in the Gorekankidul Hamlet cemetery. However, the family wanted the body to be buried in the Gorekanlor village cemetery.

This is because most of Kasti’s relatives were buried in the cemetery.

It is common

According to Suhadi, residents can generally cross the river. The corpse can be transported as usual, it does not need to be taken away.

However, residents find it difficult to cross the river when the rainy season arrives.

Still, Suhadi admitted that residents were used to these conditions.

“When it is not the rainy season you can cross, but since yesterday the river flow was high, it crawled, the people here like that,” he said.