West Irian Liberation Monument | |
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Native name Monumen Pembebasan Irian Barat (Indonesian) | |
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Location | Sawah Besar, Jakarta, Indonesia |
Coordinates | 6°10′13″S 106°50′06″E / 6.170298°S 106.834925°E |
Built | 1963 |
Architect | |
Sculptor | Edhi Sunarso |
West Irian Liberation Monument (Indonesian: Monumen Pembebasan Irian Barat) is a postwar modernist monument located in Jakarta, Indonesia. It is located in the center of Lapangan Banteng (formerly Waterloo Square) in Sawah Besar, Central Jakarta. Sukarno, then President of Indonesia, commissioned the monument in 1963 following the West New Guinea dispute in which Indonesia received the territory of Western New Guinea from the Netherlands.