KUALA LUMPUR, Oct 29 — The Federal Territories Islamic Religious Department (Jawi) began implementing a multi-tier burial method for bodies with no next of kin at the Raudhatul Sakinah Muslim Cemetery in Kepong on Tuesday.
Jawi said in a statement that the pilot project was part of efforts to optimise the use of increasingly limited space at Muslim cemeteries in the Federal Territory of Kuala Lumpur, Sinar Harian reported.
The project also uses a body-lowering pulley machine developed by the Kuala Lumpur Public Works Department to facilitate the handling and lowering of bodies to a depth of eight feet.
“In this method, the first body is lowered using a sling stretcher with the help of a pulley machine, while two or three workers stand inside the grave to receive the body.
