The failure of conventional tactics prompted the Netherlands East Indies government to dispatch the maverick counter-insurgency expert Raymond Westerling who initiated a three-month pacification campaign from December 1946 to February 1947.
Kegagalan taktik konvensional memaksa pemerintah Hindia Belanda mengutus pakar kontrapemberontakan Raymond Westerling untuk memulai kampanye pendamaian (pasifikasi) selama tiga bulan sejak Desember 1946 sampai Februari 1947.