Challenge: Indo-Australian Socialist Axis !!

With any PoD no earlier than August 17th 1945, find a plausible way in order to generate a cooperative relationship between Indonesia and Australia, both of which had already become socialist countries at the time of the relationship was crystallized in anytime no latter than 1970.

Bonus point if you can make both countries actually become communists and aligned with the Eastern Bloc during the Cold War !
 
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It's not overly hard in many respects. Just have the Australian Chifley government re-elected in 1949. They had strong socialist polices at the time so this would ensure Australia became socialist as a result. The Chifley govt was also a supporter of Indonesia. As a result ties between the two nations could easily grow stronger.

How long this remains is, of cause, the main issue as the Chifley Labor government is bound to loose an election somewhere in the 1950s, unless the Liberal Party falls apart akin to the United Australia Party which it replaced.

The other thing is I dare say it'd be next to impossible for Australia to have gone communist as most Australians keep away from the more extremes of the political spectrum. It's more likely it'd remain non-aligned or eventually drift back towards the Americans as the 20th Century goes on.
 
Have the British Commonwealth keep fighting with the Dutch to stop the Indonesians from gaining independence under the Pretense that it sets a bad precedent for its own colonies. Many of th troops fighting in Indonesia are Australians. Many Australians become involved in a program to leave Indonesia. Eventualy this turns into violence as the Government is obligated to remain in Indonesia as long as it remains in the Commonwealth. After leaving the Commonwealth Australia takes a turn for the worse and eventually leads to the election of the Autralian Communist Party who fund Indonesian Socialists. So by 1970 Australia is now Communist and an ally of the Indonesian Socialist Republic and the Peoples Republic of China.

This is probaly bollocks but its late and i dont know much Australian history or Indonesian for that matter.
 
Have the British Commonwealth keep fighting with the Dutch to stop the Indonesians from gaining independence under the Pretense that it sets a bad precedent for its own colonies. Many of th troops fighting in Indonesia are Australians. Many Australians become involved in a program to leave Indonesia. Eventualy this turns into violence as the Government is obligated to remain in Indonesia as long as it remains in the Commonwealth. After leaving the Commonwealth Australia takes a turn for the worse and eventually leads to the election of the Autralian Communist Party who fund Indonesian Socialists. So by 1970 Australia is now Communist and an ally of the Indonesian Socialist Republic and the Peoples Republic of China.

This is probaly bollocks but its late and i dont know much Australian history or Indonesian for that matter.
One problem is that we SUPPORTED the Indonesians during their war of indepedance.
 
The other thing is I dare say it'd be next to impossible for Australia to have gone communist as most Australians keep away from the more extremes of the political spectrum. It's more likely it'd remain non-aligned or eventually drift back towards the Americans as the 20th Century goes on.

Exactly why I offered bonus point for anyone who can actually make both Indonesia and Australia Communists !

So, the Australian problem is basically how to get rid Labor Party off its oppositions. But how ? If in Indonesia, I guess the problem is how to make the PNI the only official party in the country. There was a plan for that actually, but it got abandoned and forgotten like the suggestion never existed from the first place. Besides, it would be rather difficult to make Sukarno stray away from his liberal democratic stand he possessed during the first ten years of Indonesian independence.

I hope Slamet would have the answer for that. :) Anyway, if Indonesia would to become Marhaenist Socialist, she would've looked more or less like this(look at the mk.1)
 
One problem is that we SUPPORTED the Indonesians during their war of indepedance.

As i said that is my knowledge of Australian History. So make the British keep occupying Malaya and the Sort and keep the White Rajahs in power in North Borneo. That would make them adverse to forementioned Revolt
 
Bump.

Why don't we prolong this topic for some more ? I think it's interesting to have a scenario about a strong Socialist presence in the West Pacific.:)

Besides, it would be more especially interesting to figure out about how to make Australian and Indonesian socialism uniformized without Conservative Marxism(read: Soviet or China as their aim of alignment). Or would it be possible at all ? Or this Indo-Australia "Socialist Axis" would be more like Iran-Pakistan relationship ?
 
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