Indonesian split?

Onyx

Banned
Does anyone have a good summary or ideas on how Indonesia coulve been split to a multitude of nations? (Sulawesi, Moluccas, Java, Bali, etc)
 

HJ Tulp

Donor
You could have the US supporting the Netherlands during the Police Actions like they supported France instead of working against them.
 

The Sandman

Banned
Have the DEI be less centralized around Java. The best option would be the Dutch setting up several colonial governments in the area instead of just one; figure that Java, Sumatra, Borneo, Sulawesi, the Moluccas, the chain of islands from Bali to Timor, and maybe Aceh due to the lateness and difficulty of its conquest, are all separate colonies, with at most some sort of general headquarters in Batavia. Western New Guinea would either be its own colony or attached to the Moluccas; while its size argues for the former, its location and minimal importance profits-wise argue for the latter.

Now, I have no real idea on how to accomplish this; the most likely method would seem to be the Dutch East India Company being split into multiple competing firms, but I'm not sure what would prompt that change.
 

Onyx

Banned
Is there a way in which Suharto is overthrown and the states of Indonesian split up into minor nations?
 
I would think the best chance for this happen would be at the very beginning of the post-WW2 decolonization process with the Dutch deciding not to opt for an "All or Nothing" solution. Accepting the fact that the Japanese conquest means their DEI empire is living on borrowed time, the Dutch decide to spin independence into a process more favorable to their long term needs.

Accordingly, the Dutch in 1946 begin to do what France in the OTL's 1950s/60s would do to it's west Africa colonies: Deliberately short circuiting regional independence movements by balkanizing the territories involved into a series of nominally independent, post-colonial "Ruritanias" still closely linked to the colonizing power through protectorate agreements and "most favored nation" trade status.

The Netherlands begin the process by granting independence to the "edges" of their DEI possessions. Regions like Aceh, Borneo, the Celebes, and others which are the most "distant" linguistically and culturally from the Javanese are transformed into post-colonial "nations" strongly linked, overtly protected, and still somewhat slightly controlled by the Dutch just as "nations" like the CAR were strongly linked, overtly protected, and still somewhat slightly controlled by the French.

While this process played out along the "edges", Holland would keep a boot on the neck of the Javanese majorities on Sumatra and Java so, that when their inevitable independence occurs, they won't inherit the Dutch empire only to turn it into a Javanese empire, but instead will find themselves surrounded by a collection of previously independent "nations" who sole reason for existence is the fact they aren't Javanese.

Naturally, a series of Konfrontasi-type periods will take place along the borders Holland has fashioned, but this smaller, alt-Indonesia will be unlikely to prevail in many of them thus leaving a number of smaller independent nations, especially when it looks like empire building and especially when the smaller, alt-Indonesia looks the slightest bit "pink".
 
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How about Darul Islam wins the insurgencies of the 1950's, splitting Indonesia into various Islamic factions governed by Shari'a law?
 
I'm just wondering, if we do have a "Balkanized" Indonesia, what would the chances be of some of the states in Sumatra joining Malaysia at a latter date? And in case of the Sultanate of Johor, what are the chances of a successful reconquest of Riau?
 
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