Text: The Dutch are at the back, you’re at the front. As always: the Dutch are at the back, you’re at the front. Why: the Dutch can easily run, and you’re the one to die. And yet: the Dutch have higher salaries, eat better food, earn promotions faster.
Year: 1945-49.
Publisher: Banjarnegara Information Bureau of Central Java.
Artist: NA.
Additional information: Poster depicts Dutch colonial soldiers driving a jeep protected by various Indonesian groups and ethnicities, criticising Dutch privileges compared to Indonesian recruits. The groups/ethnicities are: Indonesian, Japanese, Chinese (or Pao An Tui, Chinese-Indonesians self-defence groups), Madurese, the Pasundan People’s Party (a Sundanese separatist group in the western part of Java) and Heiho (Indonesians previously recruited by the Japanese).