Marga is the name of village where a big battle was fought between the Indonesia guerillas and Dutch Colonial forces during the Independence War, which battle is known as the Puputan Margarana. The war is over, remaining is only the memory and the Taman Makam Pahlawan, the military cemetery. Unlike thw ordinary cemetery where people buried the corpses, here they only buried the ashes of them for the corpses habe been cremated. There are rows of tombstones in the shape of small candis the Hindhu temples, which fill the cemetery yards.
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