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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...

Any POD is fine, nation can be formed either natively or as a result of colonialism. What are some methods to get a Greater Indonesia, with the territories of modern Indonesia, Malaysia, Brunei, Papua New Guinea, and (maybe) the Philippines under one flag?

So I found out about this in Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luso-Sundanese_padr%C3%A3o What if the Portuguese fulfilled their promise and built a fortress in Sunda Kalapa? Could they assist the Sunda kingdom in the war against the Sultanate of Demak, and if so, would it gradually fall...

Pls answer the follow up questions and like and share what if Ptolemy Caesarion instead of believing Octavian into being lured back to Egypt continues east along with all the Ptolemaic navy in Red sea to India after learning of Golden Chersonese from traders in India restock and continue to...

St Thomas, disillusioned with the prospect of converting the Tamil kings of South India to Christianity, takes his followers in five hundred ships and a professional mercenary company paid for by sympathetic local kings. He comes upon Indonesia and the Malay Peninsula and sets upon himself to...

Han Dynasty conquers Tibet as retaliation to raids and for more horses To alleviate famines Han wudi starts a policy of conscripting peasants under famine to conquer new territory and settling those peasants there To sustain this policy his successors continue conquering Korea Japan Southeast...

Tanah Air An Indonesian timeline Welcome to the Portal Page for the Tanah Air alternate timeline By Bakso Joko Widodo Coat of Arms of Indonesia Foreword The following timeline is my very first one the site. I’ve worked on it, drafted it stopped working on it, and finally, it reached a...

Since 1949, Indonesia is officialy an independent nation, because since then it is free from the Netherlands. Before 1949, it was a Dutch colony for a long, long time. Technically, the Dutch almost conquered Indonesia back during the Indonesian Independent War (or politionele acties in Dutch)...

The Sultanate of Aceh, then at the height of its power during the reign of Iskandar Muda, mounted a massive expedition against Portuguese-controlled Malacca in 1628, but this offensive resulted in a devastating failure, with the loss of more than 200 ships and 18.000 men. What if the Portuguese...

Technicalities aside, let us say, that the Philippines did control that chunk of Borneo called Sabah, or at least what the sultanate of Sulu claims. What would it look like now that Borneo is now divided into three, and that the Philippines has a land-border with two countries? - Would the...

The communist party of indonesia is the third largest communist party in the world, with almost three million member and almost twenty million sympathizers, so the question is if somehow the communist party is able to either overthrow or become the ruling party in Indonesia, what would happen...