The Heroes Monument (Indonesian: Patung Pahlawan), popularly known as Tugu Tani is a bronze statue and important landmark located in Jakarta, Indonesia.
The monument celebrates the heroes of the struggles of the Indonesian nation symbolized by a peasant youth wearing a caping with a rifle on his shoulder, a mother behind him offering him a dish of rice.
While exploring a rural village in West Java, the sculptors were inspired by a folklore about a mother who supported her son to win the war and to remember his parents and his land as well as giving him some rice for his journey.
The statue sits at the junction of Menteng and Prapatan Street, which had been an important place during the days of the August 1945 revolution.
[3] There is a caption on the pedestal, a sentence by Sukarno: On 22 January 2012, a Daihatsu Xenia crashed a bus stop near the monument and killed nine people around the pedestrian path.