Compare and contrast the response to Japanese occupation in the Dutch East Indies and Indochina.

The question requires that candidates give an account of the similarities and differences between the response to Japanese occupation in the Dutch East Indies and Indochina, referring to both throughout. Candidates may refer to how in both countries there was a feeling that an Asian colonial power would be preferable to a European one. However, resistance increased as the Japanese introduced harsher methods of control. In both countries, there were groups who collaborated with the Japanese and groups who resisted them. In the Dutch East Indies, the Japanese took direct control of most senior administrative posts whereas in Indochina the French authorities remained in control. In the Dutch East Indies, the strongest figure, Sukarno, collaborated with the Japanese, but in Indochina the most prominent figure, Ho Chi Minh, resisted them. Both similarities and differences must be clearly indicated but there does not need to be an equal number of each.