Taman Proklamasi

[1] Taman Proklamasi complex was located at a plot of land where the former residence of Sukarno at Jalan Pegangsaan Timur 56.

President Sukarno declared the independence of Indonesia on August 17, 1945 from the front porch of this house.

[2] To mark the first anniversary of the declaration of Indonesian independence, a memorial – in the shape of a small obelisk – was built in 1946 by a group of women in Djakarta.

Since then, the youths and students of Indonesia held an annual ceremony to celebrate the Declaration of Indonesian Independence on August 17.

[5][3] Despite the perceived concern, the women-initiators of the construction of Tugu Proklamasi decided to contact the prime minister Sutan Sjahrir in the afternoon of August 16, 1946 to lead the inauguration of the memorial.

Following the reports, Sukarno ordered the demolition of Tugu Proklamasi and the Proclamation Building in the evening of August 15, 1960.

The circumstances were strange because the Linggadjati Agreement took place on November 10, 1946, whereas the Tugu Proklamasi was inaugurated on August 17, 1946.

According to Jo Masdani, at that time the Communist Party of Indonesia had significant power to change the history.

[5] In 1968, the governor of Jakarta Ali Sadikin submitted a proposal to rebuild the original memorial that was demolished by Sukarno in 1960.

On the background of the statues were monolithic sculptures numbered 17, with the highest being 8 m (26 ft), with 45 protrusions on the cascade waterfalls, symbolizing the date of August 17, 1945.