 Many thousands of people were taken away from Indonesia as forced labourers ("romusha") for Japanese military projects, including the Burma-Siam and Saketi-Bayah railways, and suffered or died as a result of ill-treatment and starvation.Between four and 10 million "romusha" in Java were forced to work by the Japanese military.Tens of thousands of Indonesians were to starve, work as slave labourers, or be forced from their homes.