Giri Tunggal Heroes' Cemetery

Coordinates: 6°59′49.9″S 110°25′14.4″E / 6.997194°S 110.420667°E / -6.997194; 110.420667
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Giri Tunggal Heroes' Cemetery
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Established10 November 1955 (1955-11-10)
Location
Pahlawan Street, Semarang
CountryIndonesia
Coordinates6°59′49.9″S 110°25′14.4″E / 6.997194°S 110.420667°E / -6.997194; 110.420667
Owned byIndonesian National Government
Size3.64 hectares (9.0 acres)
No. of graves1,843 (2011)

Giri Tunggal Heroes' Cemetery (also spelled Giritunggal Heroes' Cemetery; Indonesian: Taman Makam Pahlawan Giri Tunggal) is a cemetery in

National Hero Albertus Soegijapranata. As of 2011
it has 1,843 interments.

Description

Giri Tunggal sits on 3.64 hectares (9.0 acres) of land. The complex includes graves, a monument, a wall naming the individual interments, and gardens.[1]

History

Interments in what is now Giri Tunggal began in 1945. The cemetery was formalised with the name Giri Tunggal Heroes' Cemetery on 10 November 1955, Heroes' Day in Indonesia. The cemetery included attendees from various backgrounds, including students, soldiers, and families of the interred. It was opened at 8 a.m. local time (UTC+7) with the reading of President Sukarno's decree, and closed with a rendition of Ismail Marzuki's "Gugur Bunga".[2]

After his death, the

Archbishop of Semarang and National Hero of Indonesia Albertus Soegijapranata was flown from Steyl in the Netherlands and buried in a military ceremony at Giri Tunggal on 30 July 1963.[3] His grave continues to be a pilgrimage destination, and Indonesian Catholics hold mass by his grave on special occasions.[4][5] By 1979 the cemetery was watched by only two people, one on a morning shift and one on a night shift.[6]

The former governor of Central Java, HM Ismail, was buried in Giri Tunggal following his death on 23 February 2008.

Indonesian Communist Party who was detained in Boven-Digoel for five years.[8][9]

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