Giri Tunggal Heroes' Cemetery

Giri Tunggal Heroes' Cemetery is a cemetery in Semarang, Central Java. It contains the graves of military personnel and other persons deemed heroes by the Indonesian government, including the National Hero Albertus Soegijapranata. it has 1,843 interments.DescriptionGiri Tunggal sits on of land. The complex includes graves, a monument, a wall naming the individual interments, and gardens.HistoryInterments in what is now Giri Tunggal began in 1945. The cemetery was formalised with the name Giri Tunggal Heroes' Cemetery on 10 November 1955, Heroes' Day in Indonesia. The cemetery included attendees from various backgrounds, including students, soldiers, and families of the interred. It was opened at 8 a.m. local time (UTC+7) with the reading of President Sukarno's decree, and closed with a rendition of Ismail Marzuki's "Gugur Bunga".After his death, the Archbishop of Semarang and National Hero of Indonesia Albertus Soegijapranata was flown from Steyl in the Netherlands and buried in a military ceremony at Giri Tunggal on 30 July 1963. His grave continues to be a pilgrimage destination, and Indonesian Catholics hold mass by his grave on special occasions. By 1979 the cemetery was watched by only two people, one on a morning shift and one on a night shift.