1 Monumen dalam Gerak Monumen Pattimura and Martha Christina Tiahahu Dalam Memori Kolektif Dr. Lilawati Kurnia FIB-UI purplemoon08@gmail.com „Nothing is so invisible in the world like the monuments. They are established to be seen; but at the same time they are somehow impregnated against being perceived. Our attention of monuments behaves like waterdrops on rain covers: it does not penetrate them.“ y Robert Musil Abstrak Ambon and the islands surrounding it are known as the spice islands, and because of this natural products the islands have been visited and duly occupied by the colonial nations such as Portugese, Dutch, Great Britain. After the independent, Indonesia under Suharto especially listed many national heros, who were considered the brave men and women fighting against the colonial government of the Dutch. In Ambon there are two heros, Pattimura and Martha Christina a maiden of 18 years old, the statues of them can be found in the city of Ambon. This paper will show that after the riots of 2003 in Ambon, the government has substitued the statue Pattimura with a new one, but the new statue of Pattimura was not fully integrated in the life of the people in Ambon, it is seen as an „alien“. The old and regarded as the „true“ Pattimura by Amboneses is relocated in the museum of Ambon. Kusno, in Ruang Publik dan Tipologi Memori Kita (2009:14) stated, that monuments on one side have the function as a keeper of memory but at the same time they have taken the burden of remembering and