Kalibata Heroes Cemetery (Taman Makam Pahlawan Kalibata, TMP Kalibata), in Kalibata

Kalibata

Kalibata is a kelurahan , part of Pancoran which is itself a subdistrict of South Jakarta, Indonesia.-Cemetery:...

, South Jakarta

South Jakarta

South Jakarta is a city within Jakarta Special District, Indonesia. It had a population of 2,057,080 at the 2010 Census, and is the third most populous among the five cities of Jakarta, after East Jakarta and West Jakarta...

 is a military cemetery in Indonesia

Indonesia

Indonesia , officially the Republic of Indonesia , is a country in Southeast Asia and Oceania. Indonesia is an archipelago comprising approximately 13,000 islands. It has 33 provinces with over 238 million people, and is the world's fourth most populous country. Indonesia is a republic, with an...

. More than 7000 people who are military casualties and veterans from Indonesian War of Independence were buried. Japanese veterans of Imperial Japanese Army

Imperial Japanese Army

-Foundation:During the Meiji Restoration, the military forces loyal to the Emperor were samurai drawn primarily from the loyalist feudal domains of Satsuma and Chōshū...

 who stayed in Dutch colony

Dutch East Indies

The Dutch East Indies was a Dutch colony that became modern Indonesia following World War II. It was formed from the nationalised colonies of the Dutch East India Company, which came under the administration of the Netherlands government in 1800....

 after World War II

World War II

World War II, or the Second World War , was a global conflict lasting from 1939 to 1945, involving most of the world's nations—including all of the great powers—eventually forming two opposing military alliances: the Allies and the Axis...

 of their own free will and fought for the Indonesian independence were also buried.

Relation with Japan

Japanese volunteers were up to 3000 people. 1000 people died, 1000 people returned Japan after independence, 1000 people naturalized in Indonesia.

Japanese Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi

Junichiro Koizumi

is a Japanese politician who served as Prime Minister of Japan from 2001 to 2006. He retired from politics when his term in parliament ended.Widely seen as a maverick leader of the Liberal Democratic Party , he became known as an economic reformer, focusing on Japan's government debt and the...

 visited on January 13, 2002. Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe

Shinzo Abe

was the 90th Prime Minister of Japan, elected by a special session of the National Diet on 26 September 2006. He was Japan's youngest post–World War II prime minister and the first born after the war. Abe served as prime minister for nearly twelve months, before resigning on 12 September 2007...

 visited on August 21, 2007.

Japanese Prince Akishino

Prince Akishino

Fumihito, The Prince Akishino is a member of the Japanese imperial family...

 and Princess Akishino visited on January 19, 2008.

Notable people

Indonesian

• Adam Malik
• Ali Sastroamijoyo (8th Indonesia Prime Minister)
• Bung Tomo
• Djuanda Kartawijaya (11th Indonesia Prime Minister)
• Ernest Douwes Dekker (grandniece of Eduard Douwes Dekker)
• Fatmawati
• H.Agus Salim (the first, excluding 12 moved corpses from other places)
• Halim Perdanakusuma
• Pangeran Diponegoro
• Soetan Sjahrir (first Indonesia Prime Minister)
• Sri Sultan Hamengkubuwono I
• Sri Sultan Hamengkubuwono IX
• Tan Malaka (most radical opposition in Indonesia, his is anti-Western)
• W.R. Supratman (Indonesia National Song composer)

Japanese

• Noboru Otobe (乙戸昇, Imperial Japanese Army second lieutenant).

See also

• United States National Cemetery
  United States National Cemetery
  "United States National Cemetery" is a designation for 146 nationally important cemeteries in the United States. A National Cemetery is generally a military cemetery containing the graves of U.S. military personnel, veterans and their spouses but not exclusively so...
  
  
• Yasukuni shrine
  Yasukuni Shrine
  is a Shinto shrine located in Chiyoda, Tokyo, Japan. It is dedicated to the soldiers and others who died fighting on behalf of the Emperor of Japan. Currently, its Symbolic Registry of Divinities lists the names of over 2,466,000 enshrined men and women whose lives were dedicated to the service of...