Police say they hope the punishment will deter others from refusing to wear a face covering in public.
reported that Suyono was determined to force people to wear the masks and said:"There are only three available gravediggers at the moment so I thought I might as well put these people to work with them."
In April, a politician found a unique way to punish quarantine violators. According to Agence France Presse, Kusdinar Untung Yuni Sukowati, head of Sragen Regency, began locking those disregarding the quarantine inside abandoned houses that were believed to be haunted.
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