Kaoem Boeroeh dan Kaoem-Tani dari segala Bangsa dan Agama Bersatoelah!!! (Workers and Peasants of All Nations and Religions, Unite!!!)
A hand-drawn poster in a ruled border calls on 'workers and peasants of all nations and religions' to unite. Two farmers in conical hats stand among produce in the lower left; a train, a ship, a lorry, aircraft, factory chimneys and a fortified gate fill the rest, under the Indonesian flag and a second flag bearing a star. It is signed 'Oleh Marhaen' (by Marhaen). The tells: the signature takes the name of the common smallholder as the speaker (plain folks), and 'all nations and religions, unite' carries the appeal without any stated programme (glittering generalities).
- Date
- January 1949
- Period
- Cold War
- Made by
- Republican poster signed 'Oleh Marhaen' (author not otherwise identified), photographed at Sidikalang, Sumatra by the Dutch Dienst voor Legercontacten
- Region
- Southeast Asia
- Country
- Republic of Indonesia
- Medium
- Poster
- Issuer type
- Individual
- Regime
- Republic of Indonesia
- Leader
- Sukarno
- Audience
- Domestic public
- Themes
- Labor, Empire and colonialism
- Techniques
- Plain folksGlittering generalities
- Source
- Identified Openly sourced: the speaker is who they say they are
- Source
- Wikimedia Commons (Nationaal Archief, Fotocollectie Dienst voor Legercontacten Indonesie, 2.24.04.02, no. 5273), retrieved October 2, 2026
- Rights
- CC0 1.0 (Nationaal Archief, stated on the Commons file page)
Nationaal Archief, Fotocollectie Dienst voor Legercontacten Indonesie (2.24.04.02), no. 5273, 14 January 1949, CC0.
Text on the object
KAOEM BOEROEH dan KAOEM-TANI dari segala BANGSA dan AGAMA BERSATOELAH!!! [small, lower centre:] OLEH MARHAEN [small, lower right corner, signature or mark:] [illegible]
WORKERS and PEASANTS of every NATION and RELIGION UNITE!!! [lower centre:] BY MARHAEN
Read from the 1280 px Commons rendering. The spelling is the pre-1947 orthography (oe for u). The small mark at the lower right is not legible. Translation is FRAME's own literal rendering, machine-assisted and not verified by a fluent reader.
