Known as Kuching POW Camp Memorial, it is a bronze plaque mounted on concrete plinth.

Batu Lintang camp, also known as Kuching POW camp, was a Japanese POW and internment camp on the island of Borneo during World War II. Unlike other POW camps which housed only Allied prisoners of war, Batu Lintang camp also housed civilian internees and citizens from the local population. Originally used as barracks for the British Indian Army, the area was extended by the Japanese until it covered about 20 ha (50 acres). It operated from March 1942 until the liberation of the camp by the Australian 9th Division on 11 September 1945. The population of the camp fluctuated depending on the movement of prisoners between camps in Borneo and the number of the deaths. Its maximum population was some 3,000 prisoners.

Life in the camp was harsh, with POWs and internees alike enduring forced labour and brutal treatment, inadequate clothing and living quarters, food shortages, disease and sickness with scant medical supplies. A secret radio was constructed allowing the prisoners to follow the progress of the war. The discovery of the radio would have resulted in certain death for those involved.

After the unconditional surrender of Japan on 15 August 1945, two ‘death orders’ were found among official Japanese papers, ordering the death of every POW and internee in the camp. The first order, scheduled for 17 or 18 August, was not carried out. The second order was prevented from being carried out on 15 September due to the timely liberation of the camp. On liberation, the camp population was approximately 2,000 POWs and men, women and children civilian internees.

Lieutenant-Colonel Suga, the Japanese Commander of all POW and civilian internee camps in Borneo, committed suicide while awaiting trial for war crimes.

By mid 1946, the bodies in the cemetery at Batu Lintang had been reinterred in the military cemetery on Labuan island. In 1947, a teachers training college was established on the site and exists to this day. It is the oldest such facility in Malaysia. A few remnants of the site's former life remain and there is a small museum within the grounds. The Batu Lintang Internment Camp Monument is situated just below the location where the Camp Commandant had his headquarters.

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Jalan Kayan, Kuching, Malaysia.

Located within the Batu Lintang Teachers' Training College.