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title: 'Suara Amerika, Amerika Mengenal Malaya: Voice of America Malay-language program (Malay poster in Jawi script distributed in Malaya)'
url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/voice-of-america-malay-jawi-malaya-1951/
description: A Malay-language poster in Jawi script advertising a Voice of America Malay program. Tagged by technique, with source and rights.
section: Collection
---

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# Suara Amerika, Amerika Mengenal Malaya: Voice of America Malay-language program (Malay poster in Jawi script distributed in Malaya)

A Malay-language poster in Jawi script advertising a Voice of America Malay program. A Malayan house under palms faces a sunburst around the Statue of Liberty and a skyline, and a family of Malay listeners sits looking up at a radio, with broadcast times and wavelengths in 19, 25 and 31 metres. The tell is transfer: American imagery is placed beside a Malayan home and promised as 'knowledge, lessons, entertainment' from America.

## Propaganda techniques used in this poster

[Transfer](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/transfer/) [Plain folks](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/plain-folks/)

## Text on the object

Original (Malay (Jawi script)) · read from the image, not independently checked

```
امريكا ممغكنيل ملايا
سوارا امريكا
ڤڠتهوان، ڤلاجرن، هيبوران
دري امريكا كڤد ملايا
سياران خاص باكي
ڤندودق تانه ملايو
دالم بهاس ملايو
رنچاڠن ملايو
"سوارا امريكا"
ڤوكول 9 هيڠڬ 9.15 مالم
دڠن ڬلومبڠ
15.25 - 11.79 - 11.75 دان 9.515
كيلوسيكل
19، 25 دان 31 ميتر
كمڤولكنله اديق، كاكق، ايه، ايبو دان نينيق كراون منديڠر رنچاڠن ملايو راديو امريكا
تيڤ٢ مالم ڤوكول 9 هيڠڬ 9.15 مالم
كيلوسيكل 19، 25 دان 31 ميتر
```

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

```
America knows Malaya. Voice of America. Knowledge, lessons, entertainment from America to Malaya. A special broadcast for the people of the Malay land, in the Malay language. Malay programme 'Voice of America', 9:00 to 9:15 at night, on kilocycles 15.25, 11.79, 11.75 and 9.515; 19, 25 and 31 metres. Gather younger and elder siblings, father, mother and grandparents to hear the Malay programme of Radio America, every night 9:00 to 9:15.
```

Jawi reading is approximate; some words and frequency figures are uncertain, and the translation follows the best reading.

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