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Cemetery Luring Brides Lets Indonesians Land Helicopter at Plot
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At 8 a.m. on a sunny Wednesday, industrialist Muhsin heads out for his usual workout of a swim and a few laps around a running track. His chosen location: Indonesia’s most luxurious cemetery.
The 500-hectare (1,240-acre) San Diego Hills Memorial Park, which opened in 2007, was inspired by the Forest Lawn chain of U.S. cemeteries, the final resting place of celebrities such as Michael Jackson. Yet even Hollywood’s five-star graveyards can’t match San Diego Hills’ adornments, which beyond the sports facilities include an Italian restaurant called La Colina, a small-scale replica of Istanbul’s Blue Mosque and a man-made eight-hectare Lake of Angels that’s dotted with rowboats on weekends, Bloomberg Markets reports in its July issue.