National Monument
Marble obelisk crowned by a gold-leafed bronze flame, with a history museum and observation deck.
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This guide to the National Monument in Jakarta starts in the Hall of Independence, with the recorded voice of Sukarno reading Indonesia's proclamation, and asks when that recording was really made. It reaches back to a bamboo flagpole in August nineteen forty-five and a radio founder named Jusuf Ronodipuro, then up to the gilded flame and the Acehnese rubber exporter whose gold helped cover it. Best heard at the foot of the obelisk, looking up.
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