City Plaza Klender — the cursed mall of East Jakarta built on a cemetery

City Plaza Klender, located in the Duren Sawit subdistrict of East Jakarta, was originally called Klender Plaza when it opened in the 1990s. The mall was reportedly built on or near a former cemetery, and from its earliest days, tenants and shoppers described supernatural phenomena. The building has undergone multiple name changes — a common practice in Indonesia when a property is believed to be cursed — but the haunting has persisted through every rebranding. Staff and visitors report EVP phenomena including voices whispering product prices in the empty mall, shadowy figures moving between the stalls, and unexplained cold spots. Merchants have described their goods being found scattered on the floor in the morning despite being carefully arranged the night before. The mall's economic decline — with many units standing vacant — is attributed by locals to the spiritual contamination of the cemetery beneath its foundations. In Javanese and Betawi (native Jakarta) folk belief, building on a cemetery without performing proper spiritual appeasement rituals (such as a selamatan ceremony) can bring catastrophic misfortune. City Plaza Klender's persistent commercial failure is seen as evidence that no amount of rebranding can overcome the anger of disturbed graves.