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Bahagian yang berwarna biru tua di atas sebelah kiri membawa ke bawah
hingga atas jalur merah yang kelima itu maknanya perpaduan rakyat
Malaysia. Bahagian biru tua itu mengandungi anak bulan tanda Agama
Islam - agama bagi Persekutuan (Malaysia).
Pada 26 Mei tahun yang sama, bendera itu dikibarkan buat pertama
kalinya di Istana Sultan Selangor, Kuala Lumpur. Majlis pengibaran yang
berlangsung pada 9.30 pagi itu dihadiri wakil Sultan seluruh tanah Melayu.
Pembentukan Malaysia
Singapura berpisah
Bahagian sebelah kiri perisai itu (pokok Pinang) menandakan Negeri Pulau Pinang dan
bahagian sebelah kanan dengan pokok Melaka menandakan Negeri Melaka. Kedua-
dua buah negeri ini adalah sebahagian dari Negeri-negeri Selat dahulu. Dalam empat
jalur yang sama besarnya dalam bahagian tengah itu, warna-warna hitam dan putih
ialah warna Pahang; merah dan kuning warna Selangor; hitam, putih dan kuning warna
Perak; merah, hitam dan kuning warna Negeri Sembilan. Empat buah negeri ini ialah
Negeri-negeri Melayu Bersekutu yang asal.
Tiga bahagian di sebelah bawah itu menandakan Negeri Sabah di sebelah kiri dan
Sarawak di sebelah kanan. Di tengah-tengahnya ialah Bunga Raya - Bunga
Kebangsaan. Harimau-harimau yang ditunjukkan sebagai penumpang jata Negeri-
negeri Melayu Bersekutu dahulu itu digunakan dalam Lambang Malaysia. Slogan,
"Bersekutu Bertambah Mutu" ditulis dengan tulisan Rumi di sebelah kiri dan tulisan Jawi
di sebelah kanan.
Warna kuning pada awan-awan itu ialah warna Diraja bagi Duli-duli Yang Maha Mulia
Raja-raja.
TEMA KEMERDEKAAN
The monument depicts a group of soldiers holding the Malaysian national flag, the Jalur
Gemilang, aloft. Each of the bronze figures symbolizes leadership, suffering, unity,
vigilance, strength, courage and sacrifice.
Every year on July 31, Hari Pahlawan (Heroes Day), the Yang di-Pertuan Agong, the
Prime Minister and heads of military and the police would pay their respects to the fallen
heroes by laying garlands at the monument.
The Cenotaph nearby the Tugu Negara.
The original national monument was not the one in the form of human figures but was a
cenotaph that was situated in the middle of a roundabout. The British administration set
up the first monument, a 10m flat grass-covered ground to commemorate the wars and
honour the fallen heroes from World War I, World War II and the Malayan Emergency.
It was moved to the present site during the construction of a flyover in 1964 connecting
Jalan Sultan Hishamuddin and the Parliament roundabout. Therefore the original name
for Jalan Tugu, where the Tugu Negara is currently situated, was Cenotaph Road.
On the monument, it is written “To Our Glorious Dead with dates of the First World War
(1914-1918), Second World War (1939-1945) and the Emergency (1948-1960).
The monument was later replaced with the Tugu Negara, an idea mooted by Malaysia's
first Prime Minister Tunku Abdul Rahman Putra Al-Haj and was commissioned in 1963.
The huge tall bronze figures of soldiers standing and supporting their fallen comrades,
which is opposite Lake Gardens, are the work of sculptor Felix de Weldon, who also did
Washington’s Iwo Jima Monument and it is regarded as the largest bronze monument
grouping in the world.
The Tugu Negara was completed and officially opened on February 8, 1966, by the
Yang di-Pertuan Agong. It was proclaimed a memorial park dedicated to the 11,000
people who died during the 12-year Malayan Emergency (1948-1960). Thereafter, a
wreath-laying ceremony takes place at the monument every July 31 on Warriors Day.
Minister in the Prime Minister's Department Jamil Khir Baharom has stated that from
2010, the Warriors' Day commemoration service would be held elsewhere after
Malaysia's National Fatwa Council guidelines declared the statues "un-Islamic" and
potentially idolatrous. Defence Minister Zahid Hamidi added that a new "Warrior's
Square" would be built in the country's administrative capital Putrajaya. When asked
why the decision was made only after almost four decades of celebrating Warriors' Day
at the present site, Jamil evaded comment, saying "Alhamdulillah, we are serious in
solving this issue".[1]
National Monument
National Monument
National Monument
National Monument
Constructed in 1966, the monument is 15 meters (49.21 feet) tall, made of bronze and
was designed by Austrian sculptor Felix de Weldon, who was also responsible for the
famed USMC War Memorial in Virginia, United States.
The granite base of the monument bears the old coat of arms of Malaysia, flanked on
either side by inscriptions in English with Roman script and Malay with Jawi script:
"Dedicated to the heroic fighters in the cause of peace and freedom,
On 27 August 1975, the monument suffered extensive damage due to an explosion set
off by a communist terrorist. But the communist had denied their involvement and
instead alleged it was the work of the government itself to damage the monument in
order to rationalize the rebuilding of the monument statues which was perceived of
having statues of the Caucasians to resemble the looks of Malaysians to avoid being
alleged racist and any emmbarassment on the government part by blaming the
communist. It has since been restored to its original state with the new looks on 11 May
1977. A fence was then erected and the complex was declared a protected area
between sunset and dawn. Every day at dawn, a soldier raises the national flag and
lowers it at dusk.