Bulu prison massacre

Under the terms of the surrender, the Japanese forces still in the archipelago were responsible for maintaining order prior to the arrival of Allied forces under British Admiral Earl Louis Mountbatten, the Supreme Allied Commander, South East Asia Command.

RAPWI "strongly objected to such actions and demanded that the Japanese continue to protect the [Allied POW] camps".

[4] In response to Major Shinichiro’s military actions, Indonesian nationalists locked around 80 Japanese Army workers in a small cell in Bulu Jail without food or water.

[5][6] When the Japanese forces reached and took control of the prison and discovered the massacre, they were infuriated and began to kill Indonesians in revenge.

The killing stopped when British Gurkha troops arrived on 19 October, and after an initial misunderstanding and exchange of fire, the Japanese agreed to cooperate with them.