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title: Sedari Menanam Hingga Memetik (From Planting to Harvest)
url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/sedari-menanam-hingga-memetik-1943/
description: A smiling woman in a printed blouse holds a basket of leaves while a child picks from the plant behind her and two figures work the ground.
section: Collection
---

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[![Sedari Menanam Hingga Memetik (From Planting to Harvest)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/sedari-menanam-hingga-memetik-1943.jpg)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/sedari-menanam-hingga-memetik-1943.jpg)

# Sedari Menanam Hingga Memetik (From Planting to Harvest)

A smiling woman in a printed blouse holds a basket of leaves while a child picks from the plant behind her and two figures work the ground. Indonesian text urges: care for your jatropha as well as you can so the harvest is as large as possible. The tell: an occupier's farm programme is voiced in the local language through a cheerful local family, with no issuer named.

- **Date:** 1943
- **Period:** [Second World War](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#era=wwii)
- **Made by:** Japanese occupation administration in the Netherlands East Indies (issuer not printed; catalogued by NIOD/KB as Japanese Imperial Government)
- **Region:** [East Asia](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#region=east-asia)
- **Country:** [Empire of Japan](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#country=empire-of-japan)
- **Medium:** [Poster](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#medium=poster)
- **Issuer type:** [State](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#actor=state)
- **Regime:** [Showa Japan](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#regime=showa-japan)
- **Leader:** [Hideki Tojo](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#leader=hideki-tojo)
- **Audience:** [Foreign public](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#audience=foreign-public)
- **Purpose:** [Mobilize or secure compliance](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#purpose=mobilize-comply)
- **Themes:** [War and the military](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#theme=war-military), [Empire and colonialism](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#theme=empire-colonialism), [Economy and finance](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#theme=economy-finance)
- **Event:** [World War II](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#event=world-war-ii)
- **Techniques:** [Plain folks](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/plain-folks/)
- **Regime:** [Empire of Japan, 1937 to 1945](https://propagandaarchive.org/regimes/showa-japan/)
- **Leader:** [Hideki Tōjō](https://propagandaarchive.org/regimes/showa-japan/#hideki-tojo)
- **Source:** Unidentified Source blurred: contractors, cutouts, buried disclosure
- **Source:** [Wikimedia Commons (Koninklijke Bibliotheek / NIOD, MUSE01:TPC-IC-II-161)](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Sedari_Menanam_Hingga_Memetik.jpg), retrieved September 29, 2026
- **Rights:** Public domain (wartime Japanese government poster; Commons tag PD-Japan) Japanese occupation administration (unknown artist); Koninklijke Bibliotheek / NIOD, via Wikimedia Commons.

## Text on the object

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

```
Sedari Menanam
Hingga Memetik

PELIHARALAH DJARAKMOE SEBAIK²NJA
AGAR HASIL MENDJADI SEBESAR²NJA !
```

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

```
From Planting
To Picking

TAKE CARE OF YOUR JATROPHA AS WELL AS POSSIBLE
SO THAT THE YIELD BECOMES AS LARGE AS POSSIBLE!
```

Spelling is the 1940s orthography (dj for j, oe for u). The superscript 2 after 'SEBAIK' and 'SEBESAR' is the printed reduplication mark; the words read 'sebaik-baiknya' and 'sebesar-besarnya'. Translation is FRAME's own literal rendering, machine-assisted and not verified by a fluent reader.

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