indonesia

Majapahit was once the largest Southeast Asian Empires in history. Encompassing Indonesia, Brunei, Singapore, Malaysia, and parts of Thailand and the Philippines, this Hindu-Buddhist empire centered in Java created a Thalassocracy that controlled the Spice Trade. However, it's power began to...

The Chinese in Indonesia are hated by all Indonesians - by the Islamists as "kafirs", by the nationalists as "collaborators of the colonialists", by the rightists as "communists" and even by the communists as "capitalists" - the overseas Chinese are overrepresented in the economy of countries...

In reading about the Indonesian National Revolution, it's interesting to hear that there were all sorts of local sultans, rajas, chiefs, uleëbalangs, and other aristocrats who had collaborated with and benefited from Dutch rule (and then the Japanese occupation). They were largely swept away and...

I don't think I've ever seen this one done before. Ferdinand Magellan was a Portuguese explorer who circumnavigated the world ... in service of Spain. His history in Portugal became rather turbulent: For the sake of this scenario, let's suppose Magellan and Manuel don't have a falling-out...

The goal of this feasibility check for this "East Indies Federation" is as follows: Have a state in the East Indies that is as big as possible. Easiest would be Malaysia + Singapore + Indonesia. Papua, maybe; Philippines seem a bit hard. Have this state be led by an "LKY-style government", that...

When the Dutch first invaded Aceh in 1873 breaking the Anglo-Dutch agreements of the early 19th century due to the revisions in 1871, the Sultanate of Aceh appealed to the Ottoman Empire to honor their 300 year old alliance. And while the Ottomans provided a disproportionate amount of indirect...

The Indonesian government's official stance on what happened in 1965 was that a failed communist coup happened as a result of Sukarno's flirting with the PKI, which prompted Suharto and the military to seize full power. However, there is much evidence that the coup was a false flag operation by...

In 1944-45 Macarthur wanted to liberate Java with allied troops, but was ordered not to. What if, following the Borneo campaign, US Marines landed on the shores of Java? How would Sukarno, Hatta, et al react?

From Noah Smith's "Indonesia: The most amazing development story on Earth?": So, Indonesia. A country with a GDP per capita of $4.3k, compared to Malaysia's $11,1k and South Korea's $40k. An Indonesia as rich as Malaysia would be the 7th largest economy in the world, larger than France. An...

I know it's been done before, but, what if Indonesia was a British colony? PoD: Britain keeps Java from the Dutch/French in 1815.

War of The Tiger and The Crocodile --- Point of Divergence: Raden Mas Wuryah, the supposed Crown Prince of Mataram, is not an Idiot like what his elder half-brother, Sultan Agung of Mataram, claimed him to be. Bloody Civil War ensues as the Rightful Heir faces the Usurper... Or so he thought...

On the late 1200s, Raden Wijaya, the son of Mahisa Campaka would fail to make the necessary connections to conspire with the Mongols to establish a new kingdom in Java, he would disappear from history as a simple noble from Java and would die from obscurity, he returned from another land trying...

Painting of Sukarno by Basuki Abdullah, 1964 • • • Nationalism and Decay: Inside Sukarno's Indonesia "I remembered what had been told to me months ago in Jakarta, "Sukarno is the great Dalang, and we are all characters in his Wayang, his shadow play. We have no existence beyond that which he...

The Story of Indonesia: Colonialism, Nationalism, and Independence "Look at a map of the world. Look at the great mass of islands that trails from the underbelly of mainland Southeast Asia. Squint, and you won’t be able to see the red lines marking the political boundaries. This is the...

Axis win WW2 Nazis conquer or puppetize Mainland Europe, Middle east, Central Asia, Africa and Japan puppetize China, Mongolia, Russian Far east due to US absolute neutrality i.e., no lend lease, no embargo. India,Oceania,French IndoChina and Dutch East Indies develop a siege mentality and join...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liberal_democracy_period_in_Indonesia From 1950 until the imposition of "guided democracy" in 1959, Indonesia was a parliamentary democracy marred by uprisings, coups and prime ministers with extremely short tenures, the longest of which lasted just two years. Was...

First some context: The eradication of diseases has been one of the triumphs of the modern era, and as humanity progresses attention has turned to various tropical diseases as future targets for elimination. Compared to diseases like HIV, malaria, and tuberculosis; neglected tropical diseases...

Prime Minister Sutan Sjahrir was one of the most important leaders of the early Indonesian National Revolution, and the Indonesian nationalist movement in general. He and President Sukarno had previously worked together during the Dutch colonial period, and were both exiled by the colonial...

Seeing how the invasion of Nusantara began when the Portuguese invasion of Malacca in 1511, then being pushed by the Dutch & British arrivals to the Nusantara Archipelago alongside some parts of Nusantara being owned temporarily by France and Spanish for a short period of time, this gave bigger...

What would happen if the Japanese failed to capture Singapore and the Dutch East Indies during ww2. Let’s say before Pearl Harbour naval assets are transferred to Asia and more troops start arriving in the area (mainly Indians and Australians). The defence is also beefed up with more artillery...