Английская Википедия:Giri Tunggal Heroes' Cemetery

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Шаблон:Short description Шаблон:Use dmy dates Шаблон:Use British English Шаблон:Infobox cemetery Giri Tunggal Heroes' Cemetery (also spelled Giritunggal Heroes' Cemetery; Indonesian: Шаблон:Lang) is a cemetery in Semarang, Central Java. It contains the graves of military personnel and other persons deemed heroes by the Indonesian government, including the National Hero Albertus Soegijapranata. Шаблон:As of it has 1,843 interments.

Description

Giri Tunggal sits on Шаблон:Convert of land. The complex includes graves, a monument, a wall naming the individual interments, and gardens.Шаблон:Sfn

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".Шаблон:Sfn

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.Шаблон:Sfn His grave continues to be a pilgrimage destination, and Indonesian Catholics hold mass by his grave on special occasions.Шаблон:SfnШаблон:Sfn By 1979 the cemetery was watched by only two people, one on a morning shift and one on a night shift.Шаблон:Sfn

The former governor of Central Java, HM Ismail, was buried in Giri Tunggal following his death on 23 February 2008.Шаблон:Sfn Between 2009 and 2011 the cemetery was fenced at a cost of Rp 2.7 billion. After the renovations, Social Minister Salim Segaf Al-Jufri described the cemetery as the second best heroes' cemetery in the country, after Kalibata Heroes' Cemetery in Jakarta. At the time it held 1,843 interments.Шаблон:Sfn Of these, according to the Semarang-based daily Suara Merdeka only two, Kho Siang Bo and Lie Eng Hok, have explicitly Chinese names; Kho may have been a fighter during the Five Day Struggle in October 1945, while Lie was an early figure in the Indonesian Communist Party who was detained in Boven-Digoel for five years.Шаблон:Sfn[1]

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