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title: Balai Pendidikan Masjarakat Desa, B.P.M.D. (Village Community Education Centre) (Indonesian poster distributed in Indonesia)
url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/balai-pendidikan-masjarakat-desa-indonesian-1952/
description: A poster of ten illustrated panels with arrows pointing to a central village building labelled as the Village Community Education Centre (B.P.M.D.).
section: Collection
---

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# Balai Pendidikan Masjarakat Desa, B.P.M.D. (Village Community Education Centre) (Indonesian poster distributed in Indonesia)

A poster of ten illustrated panels with arrows pointing to a central village building labelled as the Village Community Education Centre (B.P.M.D.). The panels show farm training, a village meeting, a farmers' course, a reading garden with a newspaper, fruit-seedling nurseries, inoculation and medicine, literacy classes, a conference, an exhibition and a field demonstration. The tell is plain-folks: village life shown as a set of beneficial activities gathered in one local centre.

## Propaganda techniques used in this poster

[Plain folks](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/plain-folks/) [Glittering generalities](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/glittering-generalities/)

## Text on the object

Original (Indonesian) · read from the image, not independently checked

```
LATIHAN TANI
RAPAT DESA
KURSUS TANI
TAMAN PEMBATJAAN
PEMBIBITAN BUAH²AN
BALAI PENDIDIKAN MASJARAKAT DESA
B.P.M.D.
EXPOSISI
SUNTIKAN dan TJATJARAN
PEMBERANTASAN BUTA HURUF
KONPERENSI
DEMONSTRASI
MADJALAH TEPAT
ABC 123
DARI
KEMENTERIAN PERTANIAN
DAN ECA MISSIE CHUSUSTEKNIK DAN EKONOMIE
```

English translation (machine translation by Claude, not verified by a fluent reader)

```
FARMER TRAINING
VILLAGE MEETING
FARMERS' COURSE
READING GARDEN
FRUIT SEEDLING NURSERY
VILLAGE COMMUNITY EDUCATION CENTRE
B.P.M.D.
EXHIBITION
INJECTION AND MEDICINE [the printed word 'tjatjaran' is read here as 'tjatjaran' ('vaccination/smallpox inoculation' sense uncertain)]
ELIMINATING ILLITERACY
CONFERENCE
DEMONSTRATION
MADJALAH TEPAT [newspaper masthead]
ABC 123
FROM
THE MINISTRY OF AGRICULTURE
AND THE ECA SPECIAL TECHNICAL AND ECONOMIC MISSION
```

Captions are listed in reading order across the panels; 'tjatjaran' is read from the image and its translation is uncertain.

[← USA poster, Lincoln Memorial, Washington (Danish poster distributed in Copenhagen)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/usa-poster-lincoln-memorial-danish-1952/) [Russia's Words and Deeds \[Kremlin's Words and Deeds\] (Burmese poster distributed in Burma) →](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/kremlins-words-and-deeds-burmese-1952/)

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