Right, at present you literally CANNOT win the Indonesian War as the Dutch, even if you do. For starters, the timeline is wacky. For instance, one game I had was that after I destroyed the Indonesian Armies in central Java and killed many of them trying to seize Southern Sumatra and streamed forward into the North, I got hit with the timeline. Which feels arbitrarily short.

Even with the stakes much lower, the historical Indonesian War of Independence burned on for more than three years in earnest and had after-burns that lasted even longer than that. Here IIRC it's about two years. Which feels odd when the Dutch and Indonesians are both going to feel they are fighting over 'Their" homeland. And it's particularly jarring when you manage to grind the Indonesians down and are running headfirst towards Northern Sumatra before being told the situation is "Untenable" and so you magically lose.

(This is why as the US and other Western Allies/TA members or leaning ones like a Desai India I've taken to vetoing the ceasefire and lend-leasing what I can to the Netherlands; it takes longer but they usually win eventually).

But this is even worse because even if you DO manage to crush the Indonesians utterly, force them to capitulate, go through the rigamorale of a peace conference, and so on...the game still doesn't recognize you as winning. Instead you're just left with a ticking score that eventually kicks you when you're down.

And this is before I get into the issue of you being exiled from the TA with no way to get back in, not even in WW3 (leading to the odd sight of a Dutch East Indies and Guyana at ends with a Benelux Revolutionary State in the Haag).

I understand that part of this is to avoid an Indonesian player being utterly swarmed and wiped out like the Congonolese rebels are almost certain to do, but I feel it goes too far.

Please fix. Most of the other minor wars- even lopsided ones like Turkistan- seem to fit quite well.