Destinations: Indonesia
Tarakan is an island town, which located near to Sabah, Malaysia frontier.
According to history, Tarakan have ever become location of venomous encounter at Second World War between Japan armies and Australian army. 235 Australian armies died at the encounter. Some houses in Tarakan still having stripper cannon rest of world war that put down in house yard as supply of garden and lawn. In Tarakan there is Australian army cenotaph in location, which is become a military complex.
This cenotaph is built in memory of coping to die Australian army to free Tarakan from Japan occupying. In other location there is Japan grave residing in ex Japan bunker in hilly area. This tourism object in Tarakan for example Amal Beach is a parting 11 Km from the downtown. This beach has coconut panorama to wave with beautiful panorama. About 4 Km from the downtown, in Masjid Markoni Street Gang III there is 'Tugu Perabuan Jepang' that built in 1933. This monument is square equipped with article Kanji and is place of obsequies the dying Japanese corpse.
Tarakan is the island in East Kalimantan Province, Indonesia. This marshy island situated in the Celebes Sea, off the northeast coast of Borneo. This island has an area of 657.33 km ². Tarakan city located on the island.
Tidung tribes were the original inhabitants of the island of Tarakan. Tarakan is where the battle between Allied and Japanese in the Battle of Tarakan in 1942 and 1945.
