It is located in the center of Lapangan Banteng (formerly Waterloo Square) in Sawah Besar, Central Jakarta.

[1] On top of the monument, visible as a 36-meter high pedestal, stands a bronze,[2] bare chested wild-haired man breaking free from his shackles with his arms and legs widely spread, the former facing towards the sky.

[4] In the late 1950s and early 1960s, the Netherlands still possessed the western part of New Guinea, which it had agreed to discuss a year after the Round Table Conference.

[6] The design of the monument was based on a sketch by the artist Henk Ngantung who was also the deputy governor of Jakarta from 1964 to 1965.

The design of the monument shows a muscular man, shouting, with arms outstretched breaking free of the chains of colonialism.