Timeline of The Indonesian National Revolution - 1950

1950

• 23 January 1950: Westerling and about 800 troops capture key points in Bandung, but is persuaded by the Dutch High Commissioner and the commander of the Dutch garrison still in Bandung to withdraw the same day.
• 24 January 1950: A Westerling plot to attack the Indonesian cabinet and assassinate several of its members is uncovered. His troops infiltrate Jakarta after leaving Bandung, but they are driven out.
• 27 January 1950: Parliament of Pasudan requests that state be dissolved following the arrest of several Pasudan leaders suspected of involvement in the Westerling plot.
• February: Westerling flees Indonesia in disguise.
• March: Much of the smaller states now dissolved into the Republic. Hatta cabinet makes hasty legislative arrangements to cater for the shift to unitarism.
• early April: Sultan Abdul Hamid II of Pontinak, head of the West Kalimantan state, is arrested as a major instigator in Westerling's plot. Authority of the state is taken over by the RUSI government.
• April: Colonial soldiers (mostly Ambonese), clash with Republican units in Makassar.
• 25 April: Dr Soumokil proclaims an independent Republic of South Maluku (RMS) in Ambon.
• May: A new East Indonesia state cabinet is formed with the intention of dissolving the state into the Republic.
• July to November: A tough campaign results in Republican troops crushing the RMS rebellion.
• 17 August 1950: On the fifth anniversary of the proclamation of Indonesian independence, the RUSI, the Republic as an element of it, and the remaining states of East Sumatra and East Indonesia are replaced by a new Republic of Indonesia with a unitary (but provisional) constitution. Jakarta is made the capital of this new state.