Content note: Poster showing a soldier in camouflage kicking a barefoot man on a map. This object is shown as it was published. Why
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).
- Date
- 1957
- Period
- Cold War
- Made by
- Indonesia (poster printed 1957 with the number '5113/0 '57'; no sponsor or printer named on the sheet)
- Region
- Southeast Asia
- Country
- Republic of Indonesia
- Medium
- Poster
- Issuer type
- State
- Regime
- Republic of Indonesia
- Leader
- Sukarno
- Audience
- Domestic public
- Purpose
- Persuade or win support
- Techniques
- Card stacking
- Source
- Unidentified Source blurred: contractors, cutouts, buried disclosure
- Source
- Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam (object NG-2021-90), retrieved October 2, 2026
- Rights
- Public Domain Mark per Rijksmuseum rights statement on the object (data CC0 1.0)
Anonymous, Indonesia, 1957; Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam, NG-2021-90 (private gift, 2021).
Text on the object
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
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.
