{"id":15227,"date":"2018-11-08T15:12:06","date_gmt":"2018-11-08T14:12:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.cityzapper.com\/tip\/merdeka-plein\/"},"modified":"2026-09-18T12:09:35","modified_gmt":"2026-09-18T10:09:35","slug":"merdeka-plein-kuala-lumpur","status":"publish","type":"tip","link":"https:\/\/www.cityzapper.com\/nl\/kuala-lumpur\/merdeka-plein-kuala-lumpur\/","title":{"rendered":"Merdeka Plein"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Het belangrijkste plein van Kuala Lumpur is het Merdeka plein (Maleisisch: Dataran Merdeka). Op deze plek werd op 31 augustus 1957, na 150 jaar Britse overheersing, de onafhankelijkheid van Maleisi&euml; uitgeroepen.<\/strong> Deze feestelijke gebeurtenis wordt jaarlijks gevierd door de inwoners van Kuala Lumpur. De vlaggenmast die op het plein staat als symbool voor de vrijheid heeft een hoogte van maar liefst 90 meter en is daarmee een van de hoogste ter wereld. Rondom het plein vind je enkele historische gebouwen zoals de Nationale Bibliotheek en het opvallende Sultan Abdul Samad-gebouw, wat een van de meest gefotografeerde bezienswaardigheden van de stad is. Het Sultan Abdul Samad-gebouw werd gebouwd in 1894. Toentertijd waren hier kantoren van de Britse koloniale regering gevestigd, later werd het de locatie van de hoogste rechtbank van Maleisi&euml; en tegenwoordig vind je er de kantoren van het ministerie van informatie, communicatie en cultuur van Maleisi&euml;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":586792,"menu_order":0,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false},"tip_category":[3244],"class_list":["post-15227","tip","type-tip","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tip_category-bezienswaardigheden"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Merdeka Plein: het onafhankelijkheidsplein in Kuala Lumpur<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Het belangrijkste plein van Maleisi\u00eb is Dataran Merdeka, ofwel het onafhankelijkheidsplein. 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