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Eight people in Indonesia refused to wear face masks. They were ordered to dig graves for COVID-19 victims. (USA Today).
Eight people in Indonesia refused to wear face masks. They were ordered to dig graves for COVID-19 victims. (USA Today).
Get the picture?As Indonesia faces an uptick of COVID-19 cases, leaders in Cerme, a district located in East Java, established stricter enforcement of social distancing and mask-wearing policies.
For the eight people who violated the local mask mandate, that meant digging graves. The district's leader, identified by Indonesian news site Tribun News as Suyono, proposed the punishment due to a lack of gravediggers in the area.
“There are only three available gravediggers at the moment, so I thought I might as well put these people to work with them,” he told Tribun News. “Hopefully, this can create a deterrent effect against violations,” he said.