IPPHOS (Indonesian Press Photo Service) remastered edition

We cite from te cover of the english translation:
"This essay and the following rare or previously unpublished pictures from the IPPHOS collection are an attempt to invite the public te look at the things we should have been able to see, if only we can detach ourselves long enough from theframework of war. It is true that these pictures were made during the Revolutionary Era, however, they are not just documentations of events that transpired during that period".
"These are phoptographs of a process of becoming Indonesia and Indonesians. Not just freedom fighters with red-and-white headbands, who punched their fists into the skies, who exclaimed "this is my chest, where is yours?!", who charged forward against enemy tanks with nothing more than sharpened bamboos. These are also images of the Indonesian people as imagined by the founders and photographers of IPPHOS, taken from an angle afforded by the autonomy of an independent pro-Republic news agency. They are pictures of intelligent, tolerant, modern Indonesians, fighting for independence and justice, as well as for humanity, truth, and tolerance."