How Indonesia Crushed Dutch Colonizers

During the Indonesian National Revolution and the subsequent Indonesian War of Independence, Indonesia gained independence from The Netherlands. But how did these events unfold?

0:33 Background
2:27 First Conflict Phase
3:17 Second Conflict Phase
5:42 Third Conflict Phase

FULL TRANSCRIPT + SOURCES:

FURTHER WATCHING:

The Indonesian National Revolution: Every Day (Ollie Bye)

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Netherlands/Dutch East Indies (1927-1949):

BASIC DUTCH-INDONESIAN ISSUES AND THE LINGGADJATI AGREEMENT:

Indonesia profile - Timeline

[uqudgilbert]

Indonesia has declare independence in 1945 but the Dutch coming attack and then Dutch surrender in 1949.. so in the Dutch perspective Indonesia's independence is 1949 but for Indonesian is 1945.

[saitokurihara]

Damn, I have just found the fact that Indonesia is the only ex-colonized nation that refused to use their former colonial master's language. That should explain why neither English or Dutch become first language in Indonesia and I find that cool as hell. I have just found that my country Japan ever colonized Indonesia and I am sorry for that. In Japan, we are never told about atrocities our country has ever done.

[fathinpurniawan]

Indonesia declared its independence in 1945.
Indonesian sees the time between 1945~1949 as *defending* their independence, *not trying to gain* their independence.

[apriaf.saudin]

I really hate this sentence ""In December 27, 1949 finally Indonesia gain its independence". . It should be written "In December 27, 1949, the Dutch has no choice and declare to withdraw from Indonesia".

[sirajatega]

from Indonesian's perspective it's not a "conflict", it's a military aggression.

[Heavenlyrules]

One of critical reasons why the US retreaded its support for the netherland was because the republic although crushed, in fact it was not completely eradicated, and by that period many republican leaders who tended toward the left started to seek armed support from the soviet and china. Now imagine what would happen if a spark that the netherland failed to extinguish, was instead refuled by the east bloc. Indonesia will become the first pandemonium of the 3th WW. Especially when the netherland stubbornly tried to hold new guinea. You can see how seriously indonesian was in matters regarding their independece, adding fact that soviet was also known to generously shares their nukes like they are sharing som kind of biscuits to their allies

[chvhndrtntlr]

That's the western version of Indonesia especially from dutch perspective.

In Indonesian perspective, the discussion of united Indonesia already started in 1928, as Indonesian called as youth pledge where many scholar from different part of dutch-indies make a convention

The japan and dutch military aggression basically the same

But one element that completely cut off from that story is the Indonesian diplomacy that convince many kingdoms in java, Sumatra, birneo, bali, sulawesi, etc to united under one flag which is Indonesia

They support indonesian independence movement by donating their gold and money, giving their army and also their land even authority as a king to join Indonesia

Is not Indonesia declared their independence on java and sumatra first then they gradually claiming and fight through military campaign to stole ex-dut h indies land....

Many kingdom under dutch-indies united and formed a new democratic republic of Indonesia to fight imperialism and colonialism

[kilanspeaks]

This is basically how it’s seen from the Dutch’s point of view, Indonesia has its own version. Thank you for the effort, but you’ve made some mistakes, including mistaking Suharto for Sukarno, and calling Sukarno ‘Achmed Sukarno’ which was never his name.

Sukarno was just Sukarno, he didn’t have the usual Western ‘first name-family name’ naming pattern. He was born Kusno Sosrodiharjo, son of Raden Sukemi Sosrodiharjo and Ida Ayu Nyoman Rai, but he never did use his father’s surname of Sosrodiharjo and went by a single name, Sukarno.

[pramannitouwassy]

It was bloody revolutions for Indonesia, both of my grandparents fought for this struggle..my grandpa buried in heroes cemetery

[milluka]

Ironically Netherlands become "The World Court" in 1945, yet their action in agression of Indonesia remain untouched, since they just accept that Indonesia independence in 1949 not 1945, so their war crime before 1949 was UNTOUCHED

[Fuunism]

4:20 there's something wrong with this, it's says Fig 1: Sukarno with the Dutch Royal Family while in the photo it isn't Sukarno but Suharto (2nd president of Indonesia)

[ilhammustofa]

please note, there are some mistakes and problems after that, on a de jure basis Indonesia is not entirely indepedence until Roundtable Agreement in the Hague leads by Hatta in 1949 and the result Dutch only recognized Indonesia as a nation as United States of Indonesia (without Western New Guinea Island) and the Dutch still control and did not give Western New Guinea to Indonesia until 1962.

[blurphy]

This is why Indonesia is different than any ex-Ducth and British colonies. It has an absolute independent unlike other former colonies which nowadays still get political and economic influence from their former colonizers

[IzanamiWalker]

One thing to underline is with every agreement, the one who break them first was always Dutch. And even at the end, in the round table agreement Dutch only recognize United State of Indonesia under Sovereign of The Netherlands. So up until recently they still don't recognize Republic of Indonesia as its own country.

European at that time think that they are opressed and colonized by Germany. But at the same time they themself was opressing other country, especially in SEA and Africa. The hipocrisy

[forbidenfox]

Fun fact "POTATO" word in japan is "JAGAIMO" meaning "JAGATORA NO IMO" or "POTATO FROM JAKARTA ( INDONESIA )", and we took some inspirations for some word in bahasa from dutch and japanese too with little bit modification, even some food have similarities name and form too

[MbahMu]

You should emphasize that Soekarno was basically forced to declare independence by the young revolutionaries. They literally kidnap him and Hatta(who soon to be the forst vice president ) and pressure them to proclaim independence at 17th of August. Soekarno was notoriously known as japanese collaborator. And he initially wanted to delay the proclamation to avoid Japan's harsh reaction. While the young revolutionaries convinced that it needs to be done ASAP after japans surrender to the allies.

[cobaren]

That's why WW2 is a blessing for some countries because their colonizers were weakened by the war and thus allowed them to get their independence.

[ipezguk]

2 Best UK General (even Germany couldn't beat them) from WW2 was killed in The Battle of Surabaya.

[Gunarman]

Belanda melihat Indonesia sebagai Budak yg memberontak pada kehendak Tuannya maka, aksi militer Belanda selama 1945-1949 dinamakan aksi polisionil/penegakan hukum dan ketertiban. Banyak Anak Muda Belanda yg gabung Militer Belanda untuk dikirim ke Hindia Belanda karena termakan omongan/propaganda bahwa Hindia Belanda dijalankan/dibajak oleh sekelompok Teroris Pengacau. Hasilnya begitu mulai banyak informasi mengalir dari Hindia Belanda dan Internasional tentang kelakuan Militer Belanda di Hindia Belanda justru Rakyat Belanda sendiri yang menolak aksi polisionil Belanda. Indonesia tidak merdeka dengan santai dan diberi cuma-cuma oleh Belanda. Indonesia berjuang dengan apapun yg Kami punya. Sudah biasa ada cerita kalo Tentara Pelajar dan TRI bertempur dengan 1 senapan untuk 5 orang dengan 4 orang lainnya bawa arit, golok, atau bambu runcing. Semangat Merdeka Rakyat Indonesia kala itu sudah jauh dari akal para Militer Belanda sehingga di Lapangan para Militer Belanda bisa paham bahwa aksi Mereka ternyata memang sebagai bentuk Penjajahan.

Just translate My commet up there. I won't make It English because mine is not that great.

[Prince_Raydenn]

Sejarah kemerdekaan indonesia dari sisi sejarah yang ditulis oleh pihak belanda. Rentetan waktu kejadian berbeda. Terima kasih sudah memperkaya pengetahuan kami, tentang sisi pandang sejarah kami dari pihak belanda, walaupun kami lebih meyakini sisi sejarah dari pihak bangsa kami indonesia. 🙏