Bypassing Japanese forces in the Dutch East Indies

What would have happened to Japanese forces in the Dutch East Indies?

They could largely be bypassed and isolated through island-hopping because they had nowhere useful to go.

Island-hopping offered the likely Allied solution for Japanese forces left in the Dutch East Indies. Garrisons that could neither escape nor materially interfere with the main advance could be bypassed and isolated. The method is compared to blitzkrieg applied at sea, where movement makes a position irrelevant without requiring its immediate capture. Such garrisons could remain cut off while the main advance moved elsewhere.