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Nuclear weapons in the southern hemisphere How is it possible for nations like Brazil and Argentina in South America to have nuclear weapons And countries like indonesia and australia have nuclear weapons South Africa keeps its guns Nuclear tests in the South Atlantic, in the Amazon forest...

GUNS OF TROWULAN I On 1515, a decade or more after the eruption of Mt. Pinatubo, the ashes of Mt Pinatubo would bring in good harvests, some of the traders from Champa and Malacca in Kaboloan in Selurong decide to settle in Selurong due to the destruction of their homelands. Selurong would...

As the title, how do you make OTL Indonesia be majority of the Christian faith by ATL 2016? Or something close to it? Can it be done? What affects would this have on Asia.

For the OP here I'm trying a new type of post - all in verse - mainly to improve my rhyming skills. I hope it's not too bad, though it might well be. So before I begin, I'll just quote a Malay poet from the seventeenth century (Sya'ir Perang Mengkasar, stanza 413): Tidaklah panjang kissah memuji...

The challenge, with a POD after 1900, is to come up with a plausible alternate timeline which results in Indonesia becoming as rich, powerful and influential as possible by the present day. Bonus points for doing so without the rest of the world having to collapse and/or be destroyed. Up for it?

New Guinea is the big island above Australia which is split between Papua New Guinea in the east and Indonesia in the west. It's quite strange that native Papuans own one half of the island and "foreign" Indonesians own the other half, you'd think it would either be Indonesians owning all of it...

I was dissatisfied with my abortive Maluku TL, so here's another try. Dunno where I'm going with this. This will probably be a short timeline, focusing solely on eastern Indonesia for maybe a generation. I'm not planning very far ahead, but I'll try to update every week or two (no definitive...

Imagine an (admittedly unlikely) scenario where the Inca Empire was taken down in the First Spanish War, and never had a chance to reform into a maritime empire. The alliance with Queen Elizabeth against Philip II is never formed, the colony of New Lima is never built in California. The gold and...

In OTL, there's a communist rebellion in Madiun, East Java in 18 September 1948, following the resignation of the left-wing second Syarifuddin cabinet, after mass resignation of Masyumi (Islamist) and PNI (nationalist) minister as a protest to the signing of Renville Agreement. This rebellion is...

"We are in the mercy of Mount Pinatubo" ~ Anonymous Verso 1 In the end of the 15th Century or the beginning of 16th century, Volcano of Pinatubo erupted and destroyed the lives of the people in the plains of the Pampanga river, the ashes and lahar ravaged the lands, around this time a...

If Japan never invaded the Dutch East Indies, what would have happened to the colony in the 50s and 60s?

This Land of Golden Kings A History of the Kingdom of Srivijaya Introduction: In 1988 three men fishing just off the Southern coast of Sumatra found their net caught more than they bargained for when they hauled up a chunk of metal about 3 inches in length and 2 in diameter that, while...

Candi Prambanan, pictured before the conference. 25th December 1925 Prambanan, Central Java-Dutch East Indies It was a questionable, yet logical move, on why the Indonesian Communist Party decided to held a conference in a Candi complex, where its eerie vibe, and element of unexpectedness may...