West Irian Liberation Monument
Bronze figure breaking his chains atop a tall modernist pillar, raised on a former colonial parade ground.
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This guide to the West Irian Liberation Monument in Jakarta's Lapangan Banteng follows the bronze man with the broken chains back to an independence-day rally in August nineteen sixty-two, and to the Papuan fighter Johannes Abraham Dimara who stood before that crowd. You'll meet President Sukarno, the sculptor Edhi Sunarso and the struggle over West New Guinea. Listen from the lawn in front of the pillar, where you can see the figure's face.
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