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Heroes Cemetery, Kalibata, in Kalibata, Pancoran, South Jakarta is a military cemetery in Indonesia. It built in 1953 and opened on 10 November 1954 and the first burial took place on that day. Agus Salim, who died 6 days earlier, was the first whole body buried on the cemetery. There were also 121 corpses moved from Heroes Cemetery in Ancol.More than 7,000 people who are military casualties and veterans from Indonesian War of Independence are buried there. This includes many Japanese veterans of the Imperial Japanese Army who stayed in the Dutch colony after World War II of their own free will and fought for the Indonesian independence who are also buried there.The cemetery is easily visited. The site is well set-out and neatly maintained. It is open to the public with free entry and open from 6.00am to 6.00pm every day.The Japanese deadThere were up to 3,000 Japanese volunteers who fought against the Dutch. Of these approximately 1,000 died, 1,000 returned to Japan after Indonesia's independence, and 1,000 remained and were naturalized in Indonesia. Japanese Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi visited on January 13, 2002, Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe visited on August 21, 2007. and Japanese Prince Akishino and Princess Akishino visited on January 19, 2008.