Puputan is located in the historical center of Denpasar city in the South of Bali. Denpasar is the largest city of the Indonesian island of Bali, as well as the administrative center of the province of Bali. The name of the town means "East of market". The capital of the island of Bali, this city became in 1958. The city has many monuments, and for curious tourists will be interesting to see the combination of Javanese, Chinese and European culture in the architecture of the city.

Puputan is known for its tragic history, the display of which can be seen in the monument in the square that depicts a man, a woman and two children in heroic poses and brandishing daggers in his hands. Puputan translates from Balinese as "fight to the end" means ritual suicide, which is committed when there is a humiliating capitulation to the enemy.

The monument is erected as a reminder of the Dutch invasion of Bali - the events of September, 1906, when the Dutch army landed on the Northern part of Sanur beach and headed to Denpasar, Bali. When the Dutch troops approached the castle, from the castle came a procession headed by the Raja, being carried on a palanquin by four porters. Raja was dressed in traditional white robes for the funeral; there was a lot of jewelry, and in his hands was holding Chris - national asymmetrical dagger with a blade form. The rest of the retinue Raja – officials, guards, priests, wives, children – were also dressed in similar clothes and holding the same daggers. The procession stopped a hundred paces from the Dutch, Raja gave a sign to his priest, who immediately stabbed in the chest Raja Chris. The rest of the procession at the same time started to kill each other. The Dutch opened fire. Just killed about 1000 of the Balinese. The Dutch took from the corpses of the jewels, and the Rajah's Palace was destroyed.

As a reminder of this terrible massacre, on the ruins of the Palace erected the monument.