National Main Heroes' Cemetery in Kalibata | |
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![]() Front gate of Kalibata Heroes' Cemetery | |
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Details | |
Established | 10 November 1954 |
Location | Kalibata, South Jakarta |
Country | Indonesia |
Coordinates | 6°15′26″S 106°50′46″E / 6.25722°S 106.84611°E |
Owned by | Indonesian Government |
Size | 23 hectares (57 acres)[1] |
No. of graves | 10,105 (August 2020)[1] |
The National Main Heroes' Cemetery in Kalibata (Indonesian: Taman Makam Pahlawan Nasional Utama Kalibata), colloquially known as Kalibata Heroes' Cemetery (Indonesian: Taman Makam Pahlawan Kalibata[2] or TMP Kalibata), is a military cemetery in Kalibata, South Jakarta, Indonesia. It was built in 1953 and opened on 10 November 1954. Bacharuddin Jusuf Habibie was the first Indonesian President to be buried in the cemetery following his death on 11 September 2019. Former Indonesian foreign minister Agus Salim, who died 6 days before the cemetery was opened, was the first senior politician buried in the cemetery. There were also 121 bodies moved from Heroes' Cemetery in Ancol.[3]
More than 7,000 military casualties and veterans from the Indonesian War of Independence are buried there. This includes many veterans of the Imperial Japanese Army who stayed in the Dutch colony after World War II of their own free will and fought for Indonesian independence.[4]