My old man was there in late 1945 - driving around Batavia with a jeep full of Japanese POW NCO's
That's a little known piece of British Army history - trying to recover Indonesia for the Dutch, which is quite well covered here:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indone...nal_Revolution
Dirk Bogarde wrote a very good novel about this period in Indonesia:
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/...tle_Occupation
Open house.
PS An interesting fallout from this period is that, in the 1980s, I saw ex-British Army CMP trucks being used in a quarry near Bandung.