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East Timor was occupied by Indonesia between 1975 and 1999.

In 1999 Indonesia’s President B.J. Habibie decided to grant East Timor a referendum under United Nations supervision regarding the future of the province. The Timorese chose independence.

In the lead-up to the vote the Indonesian military made several protests to Australia regarding illegal helicopter flights over the island.

These of course were nothing more than the Indonesian Army’s paranoid delusions. ;)

Suppose however that we lived in a time line where such things occurred?

Suppose in the months prior to the referendum the TNI killed or captured an Australian Special Forces soldier?

Such a soldier would be wearing a generic camouflage uniform and his equipment, while very good, would not be from Australian Army inventory.

What would be the repercussions, Indonesian actions etc?

Alternatively; what if an Australian Special Forces patrol was compromised in the period between the election and the first UN authorised troop landings taking place?

Such a patrol would be in a concealed Observation Post in the hills overlooking Dili, would be equipped with Australian equipment and uniforms and would put up a fight before breaking contact.

The presence of such observation posts is again, purely in an alternative time line. ;)
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