![]() The Dutch favoured a federal Indonesian state, and organised the Malino Conference in July 1946, which led to the establishment of the State of East Indonesia. The conflict between the Dutch and Indonesian nationalists developed into a full-scale Indonesian National Revolution.īy mid-1946, both sides were under international pressure to negotiate. The Dutch, who had been expelled in 1942 by the Japanese occupation of the Dutch East Indies, viewed the Indonesian leadership as Japanese collaborators, and wanted to regain control of their colony. On 17 August 1945, Indonesian nationalist leader Sukarno declared Indonesian independence from Japan. The conference ended with the cession of sovereignty to the United States of Indonesia. ![]() Prior to this conference, three other high-level meetings between the Netherlands and Indonesia took place the Linggadjati Agreement of 1947, Renville Agreement of 1948, and the Roem–Van Roijen Agreement of 1949. ![]() The Dutch–Indonesian Round Table Conference was held in The Hague from 23 August to 2 November 1949, between representatives of the Kingdom of the Netherlands, the Republic of Indonesia and the Federal Consultative Assembly, representing various states the Dutch had created in the Indonesian archipelago. Johan van Maarseveen, Sultan Hamid II and Mohammad Hatta, 2 November 1949 ![]()
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