
Information
Name: United States of Indonesia
Type: Polity
Nation: indonesia
Start: 1945
End: 1950
United States of Indonesia: All Data
This page is about the data available for this polity, the chronology of the events of the polity is available here.
Was a predecessor of modern-day Indonesia. Japan's World War II occupation dismantled much of the Dutch colonial state and economy in the region. Following the Japanese surrender on 18th of August 1945, Indonesian nationalists declared independence which they fought to secure during the subsequent Indonesian National Revolution. Western New Guinea remained a Dutch possession until 1963.