Hasilnya cukup menggembirakan, ada 600 serdadu India yang “menyeberang” kepihak Indonesia. Lihat data dibawah ini:
Indonesian National Revolution
Defection in British Indian Army
The British Indian army participated in this campaign against the Republicans. However, about 600 Muslim soldiers, inspired by the republicans' "Allahu Akbar" war-cry, defected to the Republic with their weapons. 75 of these soldiers survived the war; some decided to stay in Indonesia and others returned to India or Pakistan.
Impacts
Estimates of Indonesian deaths in fighting range from 45,000 to 100,000 and civilian dead exceeded 25,000 and may have been as high as 100,000. A total of 1,200 British soldiers were killed or went missing in Java and Sumatra in 1945 and 1946, most of them Indian soldiers.
4. Inggris vs Indonesia di Kalimantan
Tahun 1965, ketika konfrontasi Indonesia vs Malaysia, Inggris mengerahkan tentara Gurkha yang ahli bertempur di hutan belantara untuk melawan sukarelawan kita
[caption caption="Gambar 4. Tentara Gurkha di Kalimantan (sumber: www.gettyimages.com)"]
British soldiers on a boat in Borneo. March 11, 1965 Credit: Stan Meagher