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1949 is the last official year of the Indonesian War of Independence. But despite the strong Dutch position and the lack of further large scale military offensives, this is also the deadliest year of the entire conflict.

So this is the end of these series. We hoped you have enjoyed and appreciated them. Thank you all for making this possible. We are very proud of the result and on the fact that it is truly a community project. We picked the topic together with you, we had a lot of community help with fact-checking and colorizing and you shared loads of additional intriguing stories and experiences in the comments. This wouldn't have been possible without you.

Next week, we'll have something different related to the Indonesia series. But then we will move on to the reshot and re-edited Cuban Missile Crisis series, which we will publish day-by-day as the crisis unfolded over the span of two weeks! We can't wait for you to see it!

Stay safe and stay sane!
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Joram

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Free At Last - The Deadliest Year | The Indonesian War of Independence Part 5

The Dutch reconquered most of the Indonesian cities on Java and Sumatra, but the Indonesian War of Independence continues as the International community grows tired of the Dutch attitude. Join us on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/TimeGhostHistory Subscribe to our World War Two series: https://www.youtube.com/c/worldwartwo?sub_confirmation=1 Like TimeGhost on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/TimeGhost-1667151356690693/ Hosted by: Indy Neidell Written by: Isabel Wilson and Joram Appel Director: Astrid Deinhard Producers: Astrid Deinhard and Spartacus Olsson Executive Producers: Astrid Deinhard, Indy Neidell, Spartacus Olsson, Bodo Rittenauer Creative Producer: Joram Appel Post-Production Director: Wieke Kapteijns Research by: Isabel Wilson and Joram Appel Edited by: Karolina Dołęga Maps: Ryan Weatherby Sound design: Marek Kamiński Colorizations: Carlos Ortega Pereira (BlauColorizations) - https://www.instagram.com/blaucolorizations/ Bibliography: https://bit.ly/IndoSources Image Sources: Nationaal Archief Tropenmuseum, part of the National Museum of World Cultures Journal of the Humanities and Social Sciences of Southeast Asia tukangpulas - https://www.instagram.com/tukangpulas_asli/ The icons from The Noun Project by Adrien Coquet Archive by Screenocean/Reuters https://www.screenocean.com. A TimeGhost chronological documentary produced by OnLion Entertainment GmbH.

Comments

Anonymous

Well done! Thanks for this informative series.

Eric Johnson

Very well done and very informative! The amount of detail and information given was eye opening and this is one of those sets of events that for the majority of the world was overshadowed by other things at the time.

Anonymous

Great series! As a Dutch history buff, this was entertaining and very interesting. One little note of improvement tho, the Dutch stayed in New Guinea untill 1962, not 1954.

DrankDropea76

Very much so, please do more post-ww2 Colonial conflicts. My top picks would be Belgian-Congo war or The Rhodesian Bush War.

Kekoa B

The Dutch reason for keeping West New Guinea after 1950 is that the people are ethnically and culturally different from the rest of the old Dutch colony of Indonesia. Papuans (or natives of New Guinea), are Melanesian, not Malay, speak hundreds of different languages, and are mostly Curtian and animist, not Moslem. In 1962, Indonesia and other newly independent countries like India persuaded the United Nations to take control of Western New Guinea (West Papua). The UN then transferred sovereignty of the area to Indonesian. Native Papuans were not consulted, and to this day many Papuans would like to seperate from Indonesia and form their own country.

Anonymous

Great and informative. Well done. An "Appendix" to this series on the travails of Western New Guinea especially in light of the protests of August 2019 and the history of human rights abuses their perpetrated by the Indonesian Military.

Kekoa B

Sorry, Papuans are mostly Christian (damed spell-check!)

Anonymous

And the Indonesians lived happily ever after - well, not really. Their darkest days were yet to come, with "guided democracy " (read: dictatorship) under Sukarno and then Suharto, a drive toward communism that resulted in the the failed 30 September Movement, bloody anti-communist purges, and the rise of Islamic influence today.

Kekoa B

May I suggest two topics: Belgium's decolonization of the Ckngo, Rwanda, and Burundi and France's rapid decolonization of its African colonies after Charles DeGaulle returned to power in 1958. English speakers are familiar with Rhodesia/Zimbabwe and South Frica since our media tends to emphasize what's happening in the Commknwealth and the USA.

Anonymous

Ethnic cleansing on Chinese descents were very brutal too. Several major riots against Chinese Indonesians happened. The latest is May 1998 Riot. I worked in US high tech industry and met several Indonesians of Chinese descent. They have abandoned their Chinese last name and replaced it with Indonesian names even long before May 1998, but still the they were targeted. Many fled the country.

Anonymous

So what kind of whiskey is next to Mr Indie?