Menjiang dengan tangan lambat dan sukar (Weeding by hand is slow and difficult) (Indonesian poster distributed in Indonesia)
An agricultural-extension poster. A giant fist holds a clump of weeds with roots above a rice field where three women bend to weed by hand, with a volcano behind. The caption says weeding by hand is slow and difficult. It is the companion to the landak-tool sheet (NAID 5729977). The tell is card-stacking: only the drawbacks of the old method are shown, with the advantage side carried by the companion poster.
Propaganda techniques used in this poster
- Date
- June 9, 1952
- Period
- Cold War
- Made by
- U.S. Information Agency (predecessor: State Department IIE program), Propaganda Posters Distributed in Asia series; imprint of the Indonesian Ministry of Agriculture and the U.S. ECA mission
- Region
- North America
- Country
- United States
- Medium
- Poster
- Issuer type
- State
- Regime
- Truman Administration
- Leader
- Harry S. Truman
- Audience
- Foreign public
- Purpose
- Warn or inform
- Themes
- Economy and finance, Science and technology
- Event
- Cold War
- Source
- Identified Openly sourced: the speaker is who they say they are
- 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, June 9, 1952. National Archives, Record Group 306 (NAID 5729978, 306-PPA-77B).
Text on the object
MENJIANG DENGAN TANGAN LAMBAT dan SUKAR DARI KEMENTERIAN PERTANIAN DAN ECA MISSIE CHUSUSTEKNIK DAN EKONOMIE
WEEDING BY HAND IS SLOW AND DIFFICULT FROM THE MINISTRY OF AGRICULTURE AND THE ECA SPECIAL TECHNICAL AND ECONOMIC MISSION
