Java pemyumbang KNIL (Dutch mercenaries)
In 1830 the Dutch formed a special unit of the army that was tough to be assigned in the Hindia region of the Netherlands (Indonesia) and named Oost-Indische Leger (East Indian army). The Dutch hired former soldiers from Europe such as Germany, Belgium, Switzerland, France and the West Africans (Ghana) to become powerful soldiers in the eastern Indian colony.
Furthermore, in 1836 the king of Willem I gave a predicate koninklijk for the unity of the East Indian army, but the predicate has not been used for a century. Then in 1933 then the East Indian army officially named Koninklijk Nederlands-Indihsce Leger abbreviated KNIL.
In 1936 the number of KNIL soldiers from indigenous peoples increased to 71% of all KNIL soldiers. They are ambon as many as 4000 people, manado as many as 5000 people, Java as many as 13,000 people. The total number of indigenous troops in that year was 30,000.
Then on 27 December 1949 Dutch recognize Indonesian sovereignty through a round table conference in Denhaag. Finally on 20 July 1950 the Dutch kingdom decided KNIL to be dissolved. Then on 26 July 1950 at 00.00, KNIL officially disbanded after serving in Indonesia for 120 years.
