Indie en Nederland is EEN. Weg met Soekarno (The Indies and the Netherlands Are ONE. Down with Sukarno), slogans chalked on a troop lorry
A group of eleven Dutch soldiers in greatcoats with rifles and kitbags stands in front of army lorries on a cobbled square. On the tarpaulin of one lorry, someone has written by hand 'Indie en Nederland is EEN' and below it 'WEG MET SOEKARNO'. The tells: the first slogan states unity as a fact with no argument behind it (glittering generalities), and the second names one leader as the thing to be removed (scapegoating).
- Date
- 1947
- Period
- Cold War
- Made by
- Dutch soldiers embarking for the Netherlands East Indies (unit not identified); photograph by an anonymous Dutch photographer
- Country
- Netherlands
- Medium
- Photograph
- Issuer type
- Military
- Regime
- Beel Government
- Leader
- Louis Beel
- Audience
- Mixed
- Purpose
- Persuade or win support
- Techniques
- Glittering generalitiesScapegoating
- Source
- Unidentified Source blurred: contractors, cutouts, buried disclosure
- Source
- Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam (object NG-2004-40-65), retrieved October 2, 2026
- Rights
- Public Domain per Rijksmuseum rights statement on the object (data CC0 1.0)
Anonymous photographer, Netherlands, 1945-1949; Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam, NG-2004-40-65.
Text on the object
Indië en Nederland is EEN WEG MET SOEKARNO
The Indies and the Netherlands are ONE AWAY WITH SUKARNO
Read from the 1280 px Rijksmuseum IIIF rendering; both lines are handwritten in white on the lorry's tarpaulin and the first line is underlined. The museum's own description gives the same wording. Translation is FRAME's own literal rendering.
