Honouring our fallen heroes

Tugu Negara depicts five figures representing the allied forces and two prone figures representing the defeated communist forces.

TUGU Negara or the National Monument commemorates our heroes who died in the nation’s struggle for freedom, mainly during the Japanese Occupation and the Emergency.

Few people know that the first monument was not the one in the form of human figures, but a tall concrete column situated in the middle of the roundabout along Jalan Tugu in Kuala Lumpur.