Memorial cemetery Candi, War cemetery in Semarang City, Indonesia.
Ereveld Candi is a Dutch war cemetery on a hill in Semarang, Central Java, with more than 1,000 graves of Dutch soldiers. It is one of two Dutch war cemeteries in the city, the other being Ereveld Kalibanteng. The grounds lie on Jl. Taman Jend. Soedirman in the Gajahmungkur district, and a pendopo on the east side serves as the entrance point.
The cemetery was laid out in 1946 by the Dutch T-Brigade, which landed on 12 March 1946, and was inaugurated in March 1947 as Ereveld Tillemaplein. In the 1960s the KNIL burial service consolidated 22 Dutch war cemeteries in Indonesia into seven, and in 1967, at Indonesia's request, the site was renamed Ereveld Candi. Reburials from Palembang (1967) and Makassar (1968) followed.
The name Candi, adopted in 1967 at the request of the Indonesian government, ties the cemetery to its Semarang locality. The site was first called Ereveld Tillemaplein, after the T-Brigade that landed on 12 March 1946. Reburials from Palembang in 1967 and Makassar in 1968 show how the grounds became a gathering point for Dutch war dead from across the archipelago.
Visitors register at the pendopo on the east side of the grounds before entering; this raised pavilion also gives the widest view over the graves and the hills of upper Semarang. The site lies on Jl. Taman Jend. Soedirman No. 4 in Bendungan, Gajahmungkur.
The cemetery was first called Ereveld Tillemaplein, after the T-Brigade's commander, and was renamed Candi in 1967 at the request of the Indonesian government. Reburials continued for decades: war dead from Palembang were moved here in 1967 and from Makassar in 1968, and soldiers are still interred when their field graves are found.
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