Whether the soldiers were the ones on the side of order and peace is perhaps a matter for debate.
Unfortunately they often were--many of the pro-independence fighters were little more than bandits and looters jumping on the nationalist bandwagon. The new Indonesian government had quite a hard time putting them down after the peace treaty with the Dutch in 1949. Of course, this doesn't usually get into the school textbooks.
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Unfortunately they often were--many of the pro-independence fighters were little more than bandits and looters jumping on the nationalist bandwagon. The new Indonesian government had quite a hard time putting them down after the peace treaty with the Dutch in 1949. Of course, this doesn't usually get into the school textbooks.
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