Unit 6: Malayan Emergency (1950 – 1960) and Indonesian Confrontation (1963 – 1966)
AIATSIS Education
Around 70 Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander men were involved in the Malayan Emergency from 1950 to 1960 when Australia sent troops to protect British control of Malaya. From 1963 to 1966 Indigenous men were engaged in military conflict on Borneo, when Australia intervened in the war between the Federation of Malaysia and Indonesia. Torres Strait Islander man Mial Bingarape shares his story of his experience of jungle warfare, as well as the impact it had on him after he returned to the Torres Strait.