Andi Depu

Polman, Sulbarkita.com -- Today is Sunday April 21 2019 is Kartini Day. The day that the community took as the day of emancipation of women. The celebration echoed throughout the country.

Everywhere Kartini from Rembang, Central Java was hailed. Being praised as a modern woman goes beyond his time.

Unfortunately the awards for female heroes are not all the same. For example Andi Depu, who has just won the title of national hero. The tug at Tinambung, Polman is not maintained.

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Around the Statue of the National Hero, Andi Depu, located in Tinambung Village, Tinambung District, Polman, is overgrown with weeds. This was complained by the direct grandson of King Balanipa to 51-52, namely Andi Guntur Parenrengi Depu.

Andi Guntur said that his party had filed a report on the improvement of the park to the Polewali Mandar District Government. "I have faced the regent's office, but until now there has been no follow-up," he told Sulbarkita.com at his residence, Sunday, April 21, 2019.

According to Andi Guntur, he complained about the lighting around the park and the statue that did not light up. "For years, the lights have not been lit which made the atmosphere around the park dark at night," he said.

From the observation of Sulbarkita.com at the location of the monument on Sunday, April 21, 2019 afternoon, the 4-meter-tall statue of Andi Depu stood in a three-square park with the size of a volleyball court.

The surface of the garden overgrown with weeds that are fairly thick, as well as around the park overgrown with weeds that spread. The statue of a female hero facing the South is also faded, the paint that covers the surface of the statue begins to wear off.

Andi Guntur said, his family who live directly behind the statue of the statue was a government building on the land owned by Andi Depu. "This is the building of the meeting time of Lt. Col. (Ret.) Abdullah Madjid served as Regent of Polman in the period 1966 - 1979. We have lived here since 1993," Andi Guntur said.

He also hoped there would be government attention to the condition of the statue. Moreover, he said, West Sulawesi Governor Ali Baal Masdar and Polman Regent Andi Ibrahim Masdar were also grandchildren of Andi Depu. "I am still a family with them, I also hope that the attention of the government to us who are the children of Andi Depu," said Andi Guntur.

In the same place, the wife of Andi Guntur, Jasmiati, 49 years old, also regretted that the government did not pay attention to the building which became the icon of West Sulawesi Province. He claimed to often clean up garbage in the park if he had time to spare. "We are just a family who work devoted to cleaning the park," he accompanied the husband.

Jasmiati continued, the park is often used by high school students to hold commemorative ceremonies for certain days. "There are students from Polewali and even from Mamuju. They hold a kind of memorial service on certain days," he said.

Meanwhile, local residents, Jailan, 50 years old, said that the national hero monument had been used by residents to take pictures and relax. "It was last renovated about 3 years ago, but now we have overgrown the grass and the paint has also begun to wear off," he told Sulbarkita.com.

Andi Depu who holds the title Grand Mother was awarded the National Hero label by the Government of the Republic of Indonesia at the State Palace, Jakarta along with five other figures on Thursday, November 8, 2018.

Giving the title of hero to the bloody woman Mandar born in Tinambung, in August 1907 ago it was according to the Presidential Decree (Presidential Decree) Number 123 / TK / Year 2018, regarding the Awarding of the Title of the National Hero.

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