The East movie

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It is a good movie. Plenty of free download sites.
If you are ever in Jakarta one of the best war museums I have ever seen. Dozens of large dioramas describing the whole independence conflict.

Some interesting points are:

The allies left the Japanese in "policing" control for several months after surrender until they could get troops there.

A large number of regular Japanese soldiers signed up as advisers to both sides.

To Australia's ever lasting shame we sent many troops and air force to fight for the Dutch to regain their colony. The Indonesians won the PR war as well as the military one and international news papers of the time paint the Dutch as rapacious colonists being assisted by other colonial nations (as illustrated in the movie). International support faded away very quickly in the face of the untenable moral position.

Still, the soldiers were there like always to do or die and should be remembered like all soldiers of all nations who just did their duty to their goverment's bidding.