Malaya Today, Picture Set E, no. 5: Sungei Besi Approved School for Senior Boys (English photo poster distributed in Malaya)
A probation officer in a tie stands among seated and standing youths in a dormitory with iron beds. The caption presents the Malayan Government's Sungei Besi Approved School as a rehabilitation facility for 120 boys of mixed races. The tell is card-stacking: only the welfare and rehabilitation side of a juvenile detention institution is shown.
Propaganda techniques used in this poster
- Date
- November 17, 1953
- Period
- Cold War
- Made by
- U.S. Information Agency (predecessor: State Department International Information and Educational Exchange Program), Propaganda Posters Distributed in Asia series
- Region
- North America
- Country
- United States
- Medium
- Poster
- Issuer type
- State
- Regime
- Eisenhower Administration
- Leader
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
- Audience
- Foreign public
- Purpose
- Persuade or win support
- Themes
- Race and ethnicity, Empire and colonialism
- Event
- Cold War
- Source
- Unidentified Source blurred: contractors, cutouts, buried disclosure
- Source
- U.S. National Archives (NARA), Record Group 306, Propaganda Posters Distributed in Asia, retrieved October 3, 2026
- Rights
- Public domain (U.S. government work; NARA RG 306)
U.S. Information Agency / Department of State, November 17, 1953. National Archives, Record Group 306 (NAID 5729987, 306-PPA-86).
Text on the object
MALAYA TODAY PICTURE SET "E" SOCIAL WELFARE A Chinese Probation Officer (with tie) introduces a new inmate to the Malayan Government's Sungei Besi Approved School for Senior Boys which has facilities for rehabilitation at at one time of 120 lads of mixed races. [5]
Sheet number appears in a circle at lower left.
