Jakarta is among the cities severely affected by climate change, hence the increasing urgency of planting more trees in the city. Existing green spaces, including cemeteries, can provide spaces to plant more trees. Public cemeteries in Jakarta contribute 21.66% to the sum of the city’s open green space area, suggesting their importance as green spaces in Jakarta. However, planting more trees in Jakarta’s cemeteries may face problems, such as excessive need for burials. This condition generates a need to search for ideas to arrange trees from various cultures and contexts, while considering Jakarta’s citizen aspirations. This study aims to explain numerous spatial arrangements of trees within cemeteries between different places of the world, as well as to collect tree arrangement preferences from Jakarta citizens. This study is carried out online and depends mainly on two methods: literature analysis and survey of fifty three Jakarta citizens. The literature analysis explains the diverse contexts of tree arrangements, ranging from traditional beliefs to legal and functional needs, as well as constraints facing the arrangements. The survey consists of pictures and short descriptions of various tree arrangements previously explained in literature analysis. The final outcome of this study is a detailed data set of tree arrangement preferences from Jakarta citizens, expressed in percentages of how much respondents liked and disliked each tree arrangement. Nine tree arrangement patterns are devised, with preference percentages ranging from 28.3% to 81.13% for each pattern. The most preferred patterns are lined big trees on two sides of roads (81.13%), lined big trees per three grave rows (73.58%), and lined big trees on one side of roads (64.15%). Meanwhile, the least preferred patterns are small trees as gravestone replacements, and small trees on the middle of graves (both 28.3%), followed by small trees on the opposing side of gravestones (32.08%).