Author: SUMARTO D.D. [=SUMARTO DJOJODIHARDJO],
Title: Indonesia Bangkit! Orig. edn.
Description: Djakarta, Penerangant Federal/[Rijks] Voorlichtingsdienst, s.d. [..], 1949. Orig. stiff wrappers, illustration after a drawing on front side, dustjacket. [72]pp. of indonesian text with many plates and text-ills. after photographs, some drawings in text, many sketch-maps in text and full-page, incl. a full-p. map illustrating the air-connections within Indonesia by Royal Dutch Airlines, K.L.M., some illustrated tables in text. [Rangkaian Beringin, No. 1]. A lavishly illustrated piece of [dutch] propaganda, stressing the economic and political development of the United States of Indonesia, Republik Indonesia Serikat, under dutch administration, at the end of the dutch-indonesian dispute, 1945-1950. This political construction was doomed to fail. Very good copy.

Keywords: merdeka independence politics economics propaganda dispute colonialism population dispute indonesia southeast asia