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title: Boeroeh dan Tani pergoenakanlah persatoeanmoe oentoek membasmi moesoeh. Mari kita berdjoeang (Workers and Peasants, Use Your Unity to Wipe Out the Enemy. Let Us Struggle)
url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/boeroeh-dan-tani-membasmi-moesoeh-1947/
description: A hand-painted poster shows a peasant bent over a hoe beside a tree and a bare-chested smith with a sledgehammer at an anvil, with a hammer-and-sickle…
section: Collection
---

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[![Boeroeh dan Tani pergoenakanlah persatoeanmoe oentoek membasmi moesoeh. Mari kita berdjoeang (Workers and Peasants, Use Your Unity to Wipe Out the Enemy. Let Us Struggle)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/boeroeh-dan-tani-membasmi-moesoeh-1947.jpg)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/boeroeh-dan-tani-membasmi-moesoeh-1947.jpg)

# Boeroeh dan Tani pergoenakanlah persatoeanmoe oentoek membasmi moesoeh. Mari kita berdjoeang (Workers and Peasants, Use Your Unity to Wipe Out the Enemy. Let Us Struggle)

A hand-painted poster shows a peasant bent over a hoe beside a tree and a bare-chested smith with a sledgehammer at an anvil, with a hammer-and-sickle star in the lower right corner. The Indonesian text calls on workers and peasants to use their unity 'to wipe out the enemy' and ends 'Let us struggle'. The tell: 'the enemy' is never named and 'unity' is never given a programme, so the virtue words carry the whole appeal.

## Text on the object

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

```
Boeroeh dan Tani pergoe-
nakanlah persa-
toeanmoe
oentoek
membasmi
moesoeh.

mari kita berdjoeang.

[initials, lower left of the drawing:] LNW
[round stamp, lower left:] [illegible]
```

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

```
Workers and Peasants, make use of your unity to wipe out the enemy.

Let us struggle.
```

Read from the 1280 px Commons rendering. The archive's own annotation gives the text as 'Boeroeh dan Tani pergoenakanlah persategnmoe oentoek membasmi moesoeh'; the poster reads 'persatoeanmoe' (your unity). Spelling is the pre-1947 orthography (oe for u, dj for j). Translation is FRAME's own literal rendering, machine-assisted and not verified by a fluent reader.

[← Indie en Nederland is EEN. Weg met Soekarno (The Indies and the Netherlands Are ONE. Down with Sukarno), slogans chalked on a troop lorry](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/weg-met-soekarno-lorry-slogan-1947/) ["Die Jugend kämpft für den Frieden!": founding ceremony of the Berlin FDJ, Friedrichstadtpalast →](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/fdj-berlin-founding-ceremony-peace-banner-1947/)

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