Talk:List of wars involving Indonesia

Is there any point?
This article seems to be a bit of a confusing mess. For a start, there was no Indonesia before 1945. Leaving that aside, the definitions of "victory" or "defeat" make little sense, and are prone to WP:PEACOCK or WP:POV edits. For examples of the confusion, just take the first item, the Battle of Genter. Given that this was "a military engagement fought between two rival Javanese rulers", how can "Indonesia" be the victor? Wasn't it also the loser? Further down the list is the Dutch pacification campaign on Formosa, which didn't even happen in the East Indies, but is listed as a victory for Indonesia, while the the First expedition to Palembang, which "ended in a failure for the Dutch." was a defeat for "Indonesia", in this case represented by the Kingdom of Holland. Then the Dutch intervention in Bali is a "victory" for "Indonesia" as the Dutch beat the Balinese... But after 1945, i.e. the Indonesian National Revolution, the Dutch seem to have changed sides, so their defeats are victories for Indonesia, and thereafter "Indonesian victories" are just whatever the Indonesian military claimed when battling other Indonesians. I suggest that this article be renamed to Military conflict in the Malay Archipelago or something similar, the "Result" column simply name the victors, if any, and that conflicts outside the archipelago be removed. Any thoughts? Davidelit (Talk) 03:19, 10 October 2020 (UTC)


 * It seems obvious that Indonesia can only win or lose battles or wars during its own existence. Battles fought within the archipelago which is now called Indonesia, many of which were fought between clans, tribes or ethnic groups all living within the archipelago cannot be called either Indonesian victories or Indonesian defeats, given that when they were fought Indonesia had no political existence. Anthony Bradbury "talk" 13:53, 21 July 2021 (UTC)

1999 East Timorese Crisis
How come Indonesia listed in both side of combatant and the result is political defeat? It does not make any sense at all... if listed on both party, then it'll seems there's civil war happening. But then again it doesn't explain on how it's a political defeat. Heck, Indonesia is not even fighting or declared war (or even something like that) against anyone on that crisis. Ckfasdf (talk) 10:37, 16 January 2023 (UTC)

Orphaned references in List of wars involving Indonesia
I check pages listed in Category:Pages with incorrect ref formatting to try to fix reference errors. One of the things I do is look for content for orphaned references in wikilinked articles. I have found content for some of List of wars involving Indonesia's orphans, the problem is that I found more than one version. I can't determine which (if any) is correct for this article, so I am asking for a sentient editor to look it over and copy the correct ref content into this article.

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I apologize if any of the above are effectively identical; I am just a simple computer program, so I can't determine whether minor differences are significant or not. AnomieBOT ⚡ 23:06, 12 February 2023 (UTC)

Inclusion Criteria
I think we need to define inclusion criteria on the article. If Indonesia is not directly involved in the war or only happen to have minor conflict within the war. With that being said, I propose to remove Operation Ocean Shield and Communist insurgency in Sarawak from the list. the rationale are as follows:
 * 1) Communist insurgency in Sarawak is insurgency in Malaysia, Indonesia was initially involved in supporting material and training to the insurgent (even then Indonesia is not participating into the conflict themselves), and after Suharto come to power, he stopped any support to the insurgent. reference for Indonesia involvement is only from here. It's even doesn't make sense when the result of conflict on the list is "Victory" for Indonesia.
 * 2) Operation Ocean Shield, Indonesia only happen to sent military mission during MV Sinar Kudus hijacking in the area of Operation Ocean Shield. Indonesia is acting independent and NOT under NATO command. Furthermore, there is no single reference that state Indonesia is part of Operation Ocean Shield. Ckfasdf (talk) 09:27, 19 July 2023 (UTC)


 * Sure, Indonesia was not involved in Communist insurgency in Sarawak, it was only based in the Indo-Malay border only, not a total involvement. However, Indonesia was involved in the Operation Ocean Shield and MV Sinar Kudus hijacking was a part of it aswell. Little involvement still means some involvement, a part of NATO or not, it still counts as involvement along with the other UN members aswell. 180.252.175.80 (talk) 11:07, 19 July 2023 (UTC)
 * Any reference that explicitly mentioned Indonesia or MV Sinar Kudus hijacking is part of Operation Ocean Shield? If no reference, then it may be considered as WP:OR and fails WP:V, thus do not belong here. Ckfasdf (talk) 11:29, 19 July 2023 (UTC)
 * here, does it need to be put in this page aswell, I think the link page is enough. https://dephub.go.id/post/read/perlu-tindakan-bersama-untuk-atasi-pembajak-laut-somalia-5536 180.252.175.80, (talk) 11:34, 19 July 2023 (UTC)
 * the reference provided still didn't mentioned anything about Indonesia and Operation Ocean Shield. However, it did mention that all UN member should fight Piracy off the coast of Somalia. So, instead of Operation Ocean Shield, it'll better to link it to Piracy off the coast of Somalia. Ckfasdf (talk) 11:44, 19 July 2023 (UTC)
 * Ohh sure, but first we should put Indonesia in the page Piracy off the coast of Somalia then, then we will link and put it on this page aswell. 180.252.175.80 (talk) 11:47, 19 July 2023 (UTC)
 * Since the article is just renamed to focus on military action... I guess the table also need to be revised to focus to the only military action conducted by indonesian military on the area a.k.a. MV Sinar Kudus hijacking. Ckfasdf (talk) 07:00, 24 July 2023 (UTC)
 * Or it could be included in the row about Piracy off the coast of Somalia perhaps? Davidelit (Talk) 07:04, 24 July 2023 (UTC)
 * I just changed it since, IMO, MV Sinar Kudus hijacking is the only involvement of Indonesia in piracy off the coast of Somalia. I cant remember if Indonesian navy routinely conduct patrol mission in the area, I do remember that there are talks to send warship for patrol mission but only "talks". If anyone disagree please feel free to revert it. Ckfasdf (talk) 07:21, 24 July 2023 (UTC)

Since the article title has been renamed, and basically expand the coverage to not only includes "war" involving Indonesia military but also "military action". Again, we should define inclusion criteria on the article. I proposed to also include notable "military action", eventhough it's part of war that have been included earlier, such as Mapenduma hostage crisis (while it's true that this is part of Papua conflict, this event is notable enough to have its own article and there are no mention of this event on Papua conflict). Also I am a bit unsure whether we should include peacekeeping mission in the list, as it is definitely a military action. Ckfasdf (talk) 07:38, 30 July 2023 (UTC)

List of military actions involving Indonesia
I have renamed this article, and changed the wording to make it more WP:NPOV. The previous use of the term victory to describe results was unhelpful as this means the result was seen from the POV of the Indonesian government only. Davidelit (Talk) 04:21, 23 July 2023 (UTC)