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Gerbong maut monument is a monument that built to remember the historical insident in Dutch colonization era known as Gerbong Maut or Bondowoso Death Train. The history noted by golden ink about the heroic struggle of Bondowoso people against the Dutch. It is easy to find the monument for them who want to see it and take pictures as it is located in the center of Bondowoso regency, between central park and government regency office. We can use motorcycle and car to go there, if we use bus consequently we have to go down in GOR (Sport Building) and 50 meters walk to south. The monument consists of 2 parts, one railway wagon and some statues of people who represent a hundred prisoners of Gerbong Maut. It becomes one of tourism object since the history was start in Bondowoso. However, the monument is only a replica of real Gerbong Maut (Railway wagon) because the real one is on display at the Brawijaya Army Museum in Malang. The historical incident was happen on 23rd November, 1947. Bondowoso society against the Dutch colony by a guerilla way, as we know that wars are always brutal and the four-year fight to consolidate Indonesian independence against diehard European colonialists was particularly vile. The wars made 100 people became prisoners and Soetedjo, one of the survivors who gave his story to Dutch researchers, the men were prisoners who had been arrested on suspicion of being revolutionaries. According to his story, they were scheduled to be shifted to the Kalisosok Prison in Surabaya about 250 kilometers distant, allegedly because the local jail was overcrowded. On the morning of Nov. 23, 1947, about 100 men in the Bondowoso prison were woken at 5 a.m. and went to the railway station. Twenty-four were stuffed into the first windowless freight wagon and 38 each in the remaining two. The floors of the cars were made of timber and the roofs of corrugated iron. There were no benches. The doors were sealed and the train left around 7:30 a.m. The day was to hot. When the train stopped at sidings along the 16-hour journey, the prisoners hit the walls and shouted for food and water. They were told only bullets were available and nothing would be supplied until the train reached Surabaya. A man in the middle car using a spoon managed to scrape a hole in the planks to get more air and the cars were hot enough to cook something. Luckily, the rain felt and some drops leaked only into the first two cars. That night the doors were opened. All the men in the first car were alive though some were seriously sick. In the second car, eight were dead. In the last wagon no one had survived. Of the 100 men only 12 were fit enough to help their mates and move the corpses and the others were taken to the hospital. ==External links== * (www.eastjava.com ) * (www.liputan6.com ) 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Gerbong maut」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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