Drunken Republic Cartoons

October 2012

Indonesia
Kompas – October 27, 2012

Board reads: Indo-clown-ia Cuisine

Kid (speaking to President Yudhoyono): The most appetizing is the terror omelette and crusty terror... and to drink the honey and ginger terror milk, seriously Mr!

Indonesia
Kompas – October 17, 2012

In addition to the myriad of social and economic problems that plague the capital, newly elected Jakarta governor and deputy governor Joko ‘Jokowi’ Widodo (right) and Basuki “Ahok” Tjahaja Purnama (left) also face what some observers have called the ‘triad of dark forces’ – business interests that have enjoyed decades of rampant unregulated deve

Indonesia
Kompas – October 13, 2012

President Yudhoyono: It’s like this! But it’s also like that!

Kid: For the salvation of what. And for the sake of who Mr?

Indonesia
Kompas – October 10, 2012

Man standing behind KPK chief Abraham Samad: Just when there’s so much work. Writing on shadowy figure reads ‘Intimidation, threats’.

Indonesia
Kompas – October 6, 2012

1st Legislator: Revise the KPK law! 2nd Legislator: No way!

Man (talking to KPK chief Abraham Samad): They proposed it themselves now they’re rejecting it, it’s just to build their party’s anti-corruption image right Mr?

Kid: The Republic of Indonesia-Clowns

September 2012

Indonesia
Kompas – September 22, 2012

Man: Yes! He’s won! Kid: A people’s coalition?

Politician: Not necessarily! (monitor reads ‘political machine’ count)

Indonesia
Kompas – September 19, 2012

Legislator: Don’t play favourites (pointing to KPK chief Abraham Samad)

Indonesia
Kompas – September 15, 2012

Man: If you open this Pandora’s Box, who’s going to pop out Mr?

Indonesia
Kompas – September 8, 2012

...Officials shouldn’t have dual loyalties

Muqoddas: Please, set an example Mr!

Man: The king is willing to give up his party, yeah right!

Indonesia
Kompas – September 6, 2012

Man: Now that it’s all over, how come it’s just being abandoned?

Youth & Sports Minister Andi Mallarangeng: It’s a National Sports Project isn’t it.

Indonesia
Kompas – September 1, 2012

Puppets: Violence... horizontal clashes!

Man: Disregarding a phenomena that keeps repeating itself... that’s a failed republic

Kid: No it’s not Dad... it’s a prosperous republic postponed!

August 2012

Indonesia
Kompas – August 29, 2012

Bhinneka Tunggal Ika: The national motto, Unity in Diversity

1st Man: The law must be enforced firmly and fairly...

2nd Man: Yeah, give an example

Indonesia
Kompas – August 25, 2012

Carpet reads: Remissions

Man: It’s not favouritism, or is it favouritism, or favouring the rich, or good conduct?

Indonesia
Kompas – August 15, 2012

Man at back of bus: Freedom!

Indonesia
Kompas – August 11, 2012

National Police Chief Gen. Timur Pradopo: Where’s your driver’s license!

Man: In this case you can be sure it not just prit-jigo (when a cop blows a whistle then asks for a bribe)

Indonesia
Kompas – August 8, 2012

Man: Give it a wash first so its clean...

July 2012

Indonesia
Kompas – July 25, 2012

Man: It’s just a parcel... where’s the tempeh?

Official: We are not a tempeh nation

Man: Then what kind of nation are we? A parcel nation...

Indonesia
Kompas – July 21, 2012

Poker machine reads: Election of Regional heads

Man: Jackpot democracy...

Indonesia
Kompas – July 11, 2012

Agrarian rights activists say that the government’s policy of trade liberalisation and implementing an almost zero-tariff policy has led to a flood of imported food into the country and is impoverishing more than 44 million farmers who depend upon the land for their survival.

Indonesia
Kompas – July 7, 2012

The “Lapindo(s) Beauty Spa” as it is jokingly called, referring to the massive Lapindo mud flow disaster in East Java blamed on drilling by a company linked to Golkar Party chairperson and business tycoon Aburizal Bakrie (right), continues to dog his 2014 presidential ambitions with two victims receiving widespread media coverage as they near th