Peacefull Decolonisation of Indonesia

What if Indonesia achived independance peacefully? In OTL the Dutch objected when Indonesia declared independance, starting a armed struggle. What if the Dutch accepted Indonesian independance? What if the Indonesian nationalists did not declare independance, would they then be given independance on a later date? How would this alternate path in history affect he cultures of Indonesia and the Netherlands? Would the Indonesian borders be the same as in our time line?

Links:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indonesian_National_Revolution
 
Desmond Tutu of South Africa said, how a country wins independence has a large effect on how it then governs itself.

So, if Indonesia wins its independence peacefully soon after WWII, maybe there isn’t this large scale massacre of 500,000 ethnic Chinese citizens following a coup attempt in 1965. Yes, that’s half a million. The movie The Year of Living Dangerously covers this general time period.

As an American citizen I should say that my government worked against human rights by turning over lists of communist party members many of whom were killed. It was a sorry chapter in the cold war. We tended to see the conflict purely in terms of West and East, when of course there was a large component of ethnic hatred as well.


*I’m both an idealist and an optimist
 
For high trajectory, maybe a more successful Non-Aligned Movement (NAM) including Indonesian leadership. I think this is often given the beginning of the 1955 conference in Bandung, Indonesia, or perhaps that was a big early step forward.

https://books.google.com/books?id=nR63CgAAQBAJ&pg=PA105&lpg=PA105&dq="It+prides+itself+as+being+one+of+the+founders+of+NAM"&source=bl&ots=AvmCWbnsVX&sig=pA5YezdAU29YO27kiew63iRJvSU&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwi9kbKdyNbZAhVDdt8KHaRfCWsQ6AEwAHoECAAQAQ#v=onepage&q="It prides itself as being one of the founders of NAM"&f=false

And maybe realistically, a reduction in East-West tensions following the death of Stalin sure would help!
Im not sure how Stalins death is relevant for the decolonisation of Indonesia as he died after Indonesia achived its independance.
 
Yes, I'm aware Indonesia fought Holland from 1945 to '49, and that Stalin died in 1953.

What I have in mind is that if the cold war had then relaxed, we on the U.S. may not have propped up seemingly every dictatorship perceived to be friendly to our interests, nor would the Soviets seemingly followed a policy of rushing in and arming rebel groups. Nor we would on the U.S. view any reduction in super favorably terms to corporate interests to be intolerable 'communism' or 'socialism.' In fact, in a cold war light as it were, just maybe West and East would compete on who could do a better job at genuine economic development in third world countries and winning allies this way.

And a relaxation would create more space for Indonesia as one of the major leaders of the Non-Aligned Movement.
 
Yes, I'm aware Indonesia fought Holland from 1945 to '49, and that Stalin died in 1953.

What I have in mind is that if the cold war had then relaxed, we on the U.S. may not have propped up seemingly every dictatorship perceived to be friendly to our interests, nor would the Soviets seemingly followed a policy of rushing in and arming rebel groups. Nor we would on the U.S. view any reduction in super favorably terms to corporate interests to be intolerable 'communism' or 'socialism.' In fact, in a cold war light as it were, just maybe West and East would compete on who could do a better job at genuine economic development in third world countries and winning allies this way.

And a relaxation would create more space for Indonesia as one of the major leaders of the Non-Aligned Movement.
Sounds reasonable but what i wanted to know is if it were possible for Indonesia to achive independance without anyform of hot war between indonesian nationalist and the dutch empire. How would that alternate path impacted the culture of indonesia? Also what would happen to all those indonesians with colonial ties that emigrated to the netherlands, australia and the united states.
 

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I think its possible if the US gets a wild bee in its bonnet against Dutch reentry that the Dutch return to reconquer. But violent experiences during WWII and the weeks after will still be fundamental.

Indonesia may have a pro-US orientation and not take on an identity of non-alignment, by which it meant, not allied with America or European NATO countries.

Peaceful decolonization by the Dutch that also avoids WWII would probably be a really long process lasting into the 1970s or 1980s.

And a warlike process could last as long.
 
What if Indonesia achived independance peacefully? In OTL the Dutch objected when Indonesia declared independance, starting a armed struggle. What if the Dutch accepted Indonesian independance? What if the Indonesian nationalists did not declare independance, would they then be given independance on a later date? How would this alternate path in history affect he cultures of Indonesia and the Netherlands? Would the Indonesian borders be the same as in our time line?

Links:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indonesian_National_Revolution

It may be possible if the Japanese did not "dangle" the prospect of independence in front of Soekarno and Hatta, the Dutch resume colonization after World War II, and some years down the track realize they don't have the economic capacity to support a colony.
 
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