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Grave of Sukarno in East Java, Indonesia

The Grave of Sukarno (or Bung Karno's Grave), Indonesia's first president, is located in Blitar, East Java. Initially an ordinary grave where he was buried shortly after his death, a mausoleum was constructed in the late 1970s and the site evolved into a political and religious pilgrimage site, receiving hundreds of thousands of visitors annually.

History

During the transition to the New Order, deposed first president of Indonesia Sukarno was placed under house arrest, and he requested that he be buried in a simple grave close to the Bogor Palace.^[1] Following Sukarno's death on 21 June 1970, then-incumbent Suharto decided to bury the former president in a public cemetery at Blitar,^[a]East Java, next to Sukarno's mother's grave.^[3][4] Sukarno's family protested his burial in Blitar,^[5] and the anti-Suharto newspaper Merdeka published an editorial stating that Su