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
- Made by
- Japanese occupation administration in the Netherlands East Indies (issuer not printed; catalogued by NIOD/KB as Japanese Imperial Government)
- Region
- East Asia
- Country
- Empire of Japan
- Medium
- Poster
- Issuer type
- State
- Regime
- Showa Japan
- Leader
- Hideki Tojo
- Audience
- Foreign public
- Purpose
- Mobilize or secure compliance
- Themes
- War and the military, Empire and colonialism, Economy and finance
- Event
- World War II
- Techniques
- Plain folks
- Source
- Unidentified Source blurred: contractors, cutouts, buried disclosure
- Source
- Wikimedia Commons (Koninklijke Bibliotheek / NIOD, MUSE01:TPC-IC-II-161), 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
Sedari Menanam Hingga Memetik PELIHARALAH DJARAKMOE SEBAIK²NJA AGAR HASIL MENDJADI SEBESAR²NJA !
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.
