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title: Ingat! Inilah Irian Barat kita jang masih didjadjah Belanda (Remember! This Is Our West Irian, Still Colonised by the Dutch)
url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/ingat-irian-barat-kita-1957/
description: A green and orange poster headed 'Remember!' shows a map of western New Guinea and the Moluccas with the Indonesian flag flying over Soasio and a man in…
section: Collection
---

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**Content note:** Poster showing a soldier in camouflage kicking a barefoot man on a map. This object is shown as it was published. [Why](https://propagandaarchive.org/about/#as-it-was)

[![Ingat! Inilah Irian Barat kita jang masih didjadjah Belanda (Remember! This Is Our West Irian, Still Colonised by the Dutch)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/ingat-irian-barat-kita-1957.jpg)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/ingat-irian-barat-kita-1957.jpg)

# Ingat! Inilah Irian Barat kita jang masih didjadjah Belanda (Remember! This Is Our West Irian, Still Colonised by the Dutch)

A green and orange poster headed 'Remember!' shows a map of western New Guinea and the Moluccas with the Indonesian flag flying over Soasio and a man in a peci pointing at the territory. On the map, a Dutch soldier in camouflage kicks a barefoot man on the ground while another stands with a bayoneted rifle. The caption claims the territory as 'our West Irian' and as 'still colonised by the Dutch'. The tell: a single staged scene of a soldier kicking a civilian stands in for the whole Dutch presence, and nothing else about the territory or its people appears (card-stacking).

## Text on the object

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

```
Ingat!
INILAH
IRIAN BARAT KITA
JANG MASIH DIDJADJAH BELANDA

[map labels:] SOASIO / SORONG / MANOKWARI / FAKTAK / BOVEN DIGUL / MERAUKE
[lower right, small print:] 5113/0 '57
```

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

```
Remember!
THIS IS
OUR WEST IRIAN
WHICH IS STILL COLONISED BY THE DUTCH

[map labels:] Soasio / Sorong / Manokwari / Faktak / Boven Digul / Merauke
[lower right:] 5113/0 '57
```

Read from the 1280 px Rijksmuseum IIIF rendering and cross-checked against the Rijksmuseum's own title-on-object field, which gives 'Ingat! Inilah Irian Barat kita jang masih didjadjah Belanda'. The reading of 'Faktak' is uncertain. Spelling is the pre-1972 orthography (dj for j). Translation is FRAME's own literal rendering, machine-assisted and not verified by a fluent reader.

[← Ngo Dinh Diem of Viet-Nam (Presidency press office booklet, Saigon 1957), 'Highlights of President Ngo Dinh Diem's Government', page 5](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/diem-highlights-henderson-quote-booklet-1957/) [Ngo Dinh Diem of Viet-Nam (Presidency press office booklet, Saigon 1957), cover →](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/ngo-dinh-diem-of-viet-nam-bamboo-cover-1957/)

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