Still in April 1944, the first NICA detachments went ashore at Hollandia (present-day
Jayapura) in
Western New Guinea, during the
Battle of Hollandia. NICA staff consisted of
Dutch totoks,
Indos, and
native Indonesian military or militarized personnel that wore uniforms. The general management was in the hands of Colonel
Conrad Giebel, who had the rank of
Staff Officer NICA (SONICA). Each detachment was headed by a
Commanding Officer NICA (CONICA) responsible for local governance. Before the
capitulation of Japan, NICA units already established civil administration in Western New Guinea (i.e. at Hollandia,
Manokwari, and on the
Schouten Islands), in the
Moluccas (on
Morotai), and in
Borneo (on
Tarakan and at
Balikpapan). US support and supplies to the NICA virtually ended when it became clear that after 15 August 1945, military command was transferred from the American SWPA to the British
South East Asia Command (SEAC). The 250 NICA detachments planned for deployment to
Java were halted. The reoccupation of
Sumatra, Java,
Bali, and
Lombok became a British responsibility, while the rest of the archipelago became an Australian responsibility. On 24 August, the Dutch signed the new
Anglo–Dutch Civil Affairs Agreement with
Lord Mountbatten, supreme commander of the SEAC. In September 1945, the first NICA representatives set foot in
Batavia (present-day
Jakarta). In response to the strong, averse reaction of the Indonesian revolutionaries to the arrival of the NICA and the inclusion of the colonial term 'Netherlands Indies' in its name, it was renamed in January 1946 to the Allied Military Administration–Civil Affairs Branch (AMACAB), without a Dutch translation. After the departure of British and Australian forces from the Indonesian Archipelago, its name was changed into the Temporary Administrative Service (, TB) in June 1946. ==Commanders==