Komando Daerah Militer XVI/ Pattimura (XVI Military Regional Command/Pattimura) abbreviated Kodam XVI / Pattimura is the Defense Regional Command which contains Maluku Islands. As the Development Kotama, Operational Kotama and regional Command, the XVI MRC is entrusted with the following: In the summer of 1950, southern parts of the Maluku Islands, with majority Christian populations, were rebel territory with the proclamation of the so-called Republic of South Maluku (RMS), and its army was mainly composed of demobilized ex-Royal Netherlands East Indies Army (KNIL) soldiers and other South Moluccan men who remained loyal to the Dutch crown, even during the days of the United States of Indonesia wherein Maluku was one of its constituent states. The Indonesian government, represented by then Minister of Defense Abdul Halim and the Commander of the National Armed Forces, Major General T. B. Simatupang, was very much furious with this act of rebellion, and by late August, President Sukarno was convinced that the time had time for the Army to assert the authority of the by now unitary national government in these islands, which during the National Revolution saw fighting between the regular Dutch forces and their pro-Dutch supporters and pro-republic Christian and Muslim inhabitants. In response, the elements of the then Sulawesi-based 7th Territorial Army Command Eastern Indonesia, which had the Maluku islands are part of its area of responsibility, began to draw up plans for a military operations movement called "South Maluku Army Command" with operational commander Colonel Alexander Kawilarang (TA Commander for Eastern Indonesia), which was then handed over to Lieutenant Colonel Slamet Riyadi. The South Maluku Army Command, late in August, was charged with the invasion of the Buru, Seram, Ambon and Lease islands to reclaim the islands from the hands of the RMS government through guerilla operations. After succeeding in its operations movement, the Chief of Staff of the Army on August 30, 1950 ordered the transformation of the South Maluku Army Command into the D Force Command (KOMPAS D ) under the leadership of Lieutenant Colonel J.F. Warouw and composed partly of the Christians and Muslims of Maluku who supported the government in Jakarta. That force was the main local formation that helped the Army win the Invasion of Ambon in the early fall of 1950. More information...
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