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title: Still from "Chabar Dai Toa" no. 31, Japanese newsreel with Indonesian-language title cards for occupied Java (1942)
url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/chabar-dai-toa-newsreel-31-title-card-1942/
description: 'Black-and-white title card from a Japanese newsreel, lettered in Indonesian over a stylised double-leaf sprout: it opens with the Muslim formula of…'
section: Collection
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# Still from "Chabar Dai Toa" no. 31, Japanese newsreel with Indonesian-language title cards for occupied Java (1942)

Black-and-white title card from a Japanese newsreel, lettered in Indonesian over a stylised double-leaf sprout: it opens with the Muslim formula of thanks, 'Alhamdoelilah', then says Asia has now been given back to the Asian peoples and calls on viewers to work for 'Persatoean Bersama' in 'Asia Timoer Raja'. Abstract unity-and-liberation wording with no stated terms (glittering generalities), prefaced by a religious phrase addressed to a mainly Muslim audience (transfer).

## Text on the object

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

```
Alhamdoelilah
Asia sekarang telah
dikembalikan kepada bangsa
Asia.
Marilah kita bekerdja
oentoek Persatoean Bersama
di Asia Timoer Raja ini.
```

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

```
Praise be to God. Asia has now been given back to the Asian people. Let us work for a united togetherness in this Great East Asia.
```

Spelling is the 1940s Dutch-influenced Indonesian orthography as lettered on the card (oe for u, dj for j). Read from the committed frame; the archive's English catalogue paraphrase of the same card reads 'Asia is again for the Asians'. Translation is a literal English rendering by Claude, not verified by a fluent reader.

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