Protest from the Tin Pail

For Sukarno, the smelly tin pail was used as a urinal as well as a means for putting his ideas on paper. Each night in Banceuy Prison, Bandung, 1930, he would use the pail as a desk and a portable potty. When morning came, when he was allowed to leave his cell, he took the pail to the bathroom to be cleaned. Afterwards, he wrapped it in several sheets of paper and used it again as a desk.

After almost a year in Banceuy, many pages had been writt

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