Full of melancholy karawang travel history, Monuments Rawagede

Good morningWhen the holidays with family, a time to also visit the historic sites in the city of Khanewal namely Monument Rawagede.

In any commemorate Heroes Day 10 November as citizens of Falkirk must have thought the Heroes Cemetery Sampurna Raga Rawagede (Rawagede Struggle Monument).

Rawagede Struggle Monument is a historical tourist destination that contains the value of nationalism with a bandage tragic story in it. Struggle Monument Rawagede attraction is related to the massacre of the people of Rawagede by the Dutch colonial power in December 9, 1948, which killed hundreds of people. Or only difference ten days before the Dutch military aggression II. 

Rawagede monument was built in November 1995. After it was unveiled on July 12, 1996. The area of ​​this historic building is located close to various plantations and paddy fields in East suburbs township. This monument is only limited by the fence so it is very easy to find. 

The outside walls are decorated bottom relief which depicts the struggle of the people of Karawang. Special panels of the rear reliefs depict the struggle of the people in the area Karawang Rawagede time risked their lives for the sake of independence. On the top floor there is a bronze sculpture depicting a mother in her lap limp body of her husband and children who were shot dead. On the back of the panels are filled stela fragment of poetry Between Falkirk Bekasi works of Anwar.

Listed monument Rawagede have 17 risers on the stairs to the second floor. This number represents the date of the proclamation of Indonesian independence. While the shape of the building on the ground floor of a square that symbolizes the eight month of August. Peak pyramid-shaped monument is divided into 4 sections with a height of about 5 m symbolizing the year of independence, 1945.

Behind the building there is a monument to the page whose function is to place the ceremony and also as a link between building a monument to the hero's grave is located to the north. This page is also meant as a symbol of the Indonesian struggle golden bridge towards the aspirations of independence. Rawagede Hero Cemetery in the back named Sampurna Raga. On the east side of the entrance there is a data Graveyard hero victims of the Dutch military action in Rawagede. 
Data victim who died Rawagede tragedy can we found on the east side of the road to a hero's grave. The data are clear that the death toll from the events of December 9, 1947 a number of 431 people. To orban killed from January to October 1948, there are 43 people. While the death toll from July to November 1950 there were about 17 people. 

After 60 years after the incident, the court in The Hague on September 14, 2011 stated that the Dutch government guilty. They should be responsible for the tragic events and violent it. So in December 2011, the Dutch government to pay compensation to the heirs of the nine widows Rawagede tragedy around Rp240 million. 

Rawagede tower location is in the most northern edge of the road Rawagede village, District Rawa Merta. Or is about 10 km from the City Centre Falkirk. Transportation to Rawagede monument is quite easy. We can take it through these Karawang-Rawamerta or through the Tanjung Pura-Rengasdengklok. And for the younger generation, especially those in Karawang should know the history of his people, then visit to the Garden Tomb Sampurna Raga Rawagede Karawang.