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).
The Dutch are at the back, you’re at the front (Indonesian poster, ca. 1945-49)
