Empress Willhelmina of Indonesia

Would it be possible (not likely, but possible) that Queen Willhelmina of the Netherlands, during WWII, decides to reach Dutch East Indies, to be on her sovereign territories, with a better base to fight than just islands in the Antilles and Suriname ?

Would it strenghten the bond between some Indonesian people and the Dutch (or at least the Dutch monarchy) if she did so, and might she offer to split the heritage of the Dutch Crown between East Indies for one heir and other Dutch places for the other one ?

I think that would do an awesome TL, if someone is less lazy than I am
 
Would it be possible (not likely, but possible) that Queen Willhelmina of the Netherlands, during WWII, decides to reach Dutch East Indies, to be on her sovereign territories, with a better base to fight than just islands in the Antilles and Suriname ?

Would it strenghten the bond between some Indonesian people and the Dutch (or at least the Dutch monarchy) if she did so, and might she offer to split the heritage of the Dutch Crown between East Indies for one heir and other Dutch places for the other one ?

I think that would do an awesome TL, if someone is less lazy than I am

In a word, this is basically nonsense. By the 1940's its WAY too far gone to get reproachment with the Indonesians; too many centuries of near-slave condition baggage and too few local Dutchmen/cultural influence. The Islands are under the katana blade of the Japanese, as well, meaning that unlike in a convortable London exile you run the risk of getting killed/captured with a much lower capacity to resist/defend, while distancing yourself from the Dutch forces-in-exile stationed in the UK to help co-ordinate with the homeland. Running will also sap the morale/will to resist in the Neatherlands.
 
Not any chances. Indonesia was even effectively occupied by Japan during WW2 and Netherlands would still lost the islands after the war.
 
Not any chances. Indonesia was even effectively occupied by Japan during WW2 and Netherlands would still lost the islands after the war.

Indonesia was not occupied by Japan at the time Netherlands surrendered, and even after the war, it took five years to take independance. Still, since apparently there is no chance such a thing happen ....
 
I don't think its possible, even if you somehow managed to prevented the Japanese from occupying DEI, which itself was very difficult because they really wanted that oil and western military powers were basically in disarray throughout SEA when the war started.

(Despite their brutality, the Japanese occupation actually empowered independence sentiment so much in Indonesia that when the Dutch came back, Indonesia basically exploded into war.)

The last thing is, even if they managed to stave of the Japanese, when the the war ended and decolonisation trend started, the best you can get in Indonesia is friendly government ala Malaysia or India. Mind you, even in countries without the nationalist movement getting radicalized, people mostly still won't accept a foreign, western head of state.
 
Indonesia was not occupied by Japan at the time Netherlands surrendered, and even after the war, it took five years to take independance. Still, since apparently there is no chance such a thing happen ....

The clouds were already rather dark over the region, however, and transferring and resetting up a government on the opposite side of the world; particularly in a region without alot of preexisting infastructure for that sort of thing, takes time. Sure, you COULD do it, if you were bent on doing it for it's own sake, but why WOULD the Dutch do so? The government would be less safe, less comfortable, less effective, lose popularity among it's main base (the home country), be less capable of co-ordinating and integrating with it's allies, and tossing fuel on the fire of Japanese anti-colonialist propaganda. It's an all around inferior choice by any useful measure.

As for the time it took to get independence, the fact that the resistance needed to centeralize and organize basically from the ground up without a reliable source of arms had something to do with that
 
In a word, this is basically nonsense. By the 1940's its WAY too far gone to get reproachment with the Indonesians; too many centuries of near-slave condition baggage and too few local Dutchmen/cultural influence. The Islands are under the katana blade of the Japanese, as well, meaning that unlike in a convortable London exile you run the risk of getting killed/captured with a much lower capacity to resist/defend, while distancing yourself from the Dutch forces-in-exile stationed in the UK to help co-ordinate with the homeland. Running will also sap the morale/will to resist in the Neatherlands.
I'd put the blame more on severe mismanagement and failed reforms of the previous decades, including promises of autonomy that were never granted, that made continuing rule so awkward even at the best of times. Past centuries only matter as much in how people choose to remember them. The Dutch East-Indies actually had a Dutch-speaking elite, it just didn't feel terribly loyal to the Netherlands (except maybe the monarchy, but as Dutch history itself has shown, that doesn't prevent rebellion).

By the 1930's, the educated classes of the East Indies had no reason to still believe Dutch promises of self-rule, and so started their own nationalist movement to attain sovereignty. What happened afterwards wasn't exactly set in stone (it'd be a mistake to think that there was already a fully-formed Indonesia hidden underneath Dutch rule, which was just waiting to be set free), but one'd need a lot of engineering to get a different outcome by 1940. Just sending Wilhelmina there just as the Japanese are about to strike wouldn't cut it.
 
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