 The monument was officially inaugurated by the mayor of Central Jakarta A. Munir on May 2, 1982.It was erected to commemorate the revolutionary struggle in maintaining the self-proclaimed independence of Indonesia from the Allied occupation, specifically the arrival of the war ship of the Allied in Jakarta Bay on September 29, 1945.The monument was designed by native sculptor Sadiman, Suhartono and Haryang Iskandar, and painter Suyono Palal.