After the murder of five RAF aircrew and twenty Indian soldiers by Indonesian nationalists, the village of Bekassi (Bekasi) in Java, Dutch East Indies (Indonesia), is burned in reprisal, December 1945. Days after Japan’s surrender, Indonesian nationalists declared independence from the Netherlands. In September, British troops arrived in Java to take the surrender of Japanese forces and to recover prisoners of war and internees. Relations between British and Indonesian forces soon broke down, wi

Gurkhas participate in a river patrol on the island of Nunukan in Borneo during the Indonesian Confrontation, 1964. The conflict was sparked by Indonesia’s opposition to the formation of Malaysia, with Britain and Commonwealth allies supporting Malaysia militarily. Read more about the Confrontation here: https://bit.ly/3mIEFza Film: IWM ADM 3416 | Imperial War Museum London