ABSTRACT

A poster issued some years ago by the Indonesian Department for Social Affairs shows two pictures (see overleaf). One of them shows two hunters with weapons pulling a dead pig out from the forest. The other picture shows a farmer's house surrounded by chickens and goats. An arrow, which symbolizes ‘development’, connects the two pictures: from hunting animals to domesticating animals, implying a step from ‘primitive’ pig-hunter to ‘civilized’ peasant.