Trip To Indonesia National Monument - Jakarta

National Monument

Indonesia National Monument or what Indonesian and Jakarta people usually call as Monas is a monument built to remember the struggle of Indonesian heroes fighting the colonial domination. Monas was built based on the idea of the first president of Indonesia, Ir. Soekarno, with the help of Sudarsono and F. Silaban as the architect, and Ir. Rooseno as the consultant. It’s builts on an area with a width of 80 hectares. Monas was officially open on 17th August 1961 by President Soekarno, and publicly open on 12th July 1971.

The top of Monas shaped like a flame, symbolizing a never extinguished spirit of Indonesian people. The flame was made of bronze medal which weight was 14.5 ton, and was plated with 35 kg gold. The flame has 6 meters diameter and consist of 77 concentrated parts.

The standing pillar of Monas which height is 137 meters, symbolizing a rice pestle, while the cup symbolizing a rice barn. Rice pestle and barn are traditional tools to pound rice, figuring out Indonesia as an agricultural country. They’re also regarded as the symbol of Indonesian people’s fertility, and as the symbol of male and female.

Jakarta people usually utilize Monas area as a place for sport activities, in the morning and afternoon time. Most people visit Monas on weekend and holidays.

Source : http://www.indonesia-travel-guide.com/Jakarta_Travel_Guide/National_Monument_Monas/National_Monument_Monas.html

My Opini

National Monument (Monas) is a great place which always remembering me how wonderful Indonesia is. I've ever visited this place in my childhood, and then I come back there in my teen age with a proudness that I live in a rich-history country. Still remaining some memories when I was there with my friends, that's a bright day. We came into Monas area and found many tourists there, then we took some photos while looking around, many local people are offering their merchandises.

Next we went underground into the entry counters and bought some tickets to looked closely to the monument. Unfortunately, we can't go inside the monument because the monument is closed, so we just looked around in the monument's outside area. We looked an amazing sight of Jakarta city from there. Then we continued our trip to the other side of monument, we find a little park which surrounded by some statues. I guess that the statues are the other history-relic from Indonesia.

What a wonderful experience to go to a wonderful place :D And I'm sure I will go back there someday :)