Chair legs: National Awakening Party, United Development Party, Justice & Prosperity Party (PKS), National Mandate Party.
Drunken Republic Cartoons
April 2012
Advocates for local fishing communities say the government is turning a blind eye to illegal fish imports and ignoring a 2010 law on imported fishery products by failing to destroy illegally imported shipments, which are sold cheap on local markets by corrupt officials and are destroying the livelihoods of local fisherpeople, already struggling
Man: Were we fooled? Doesn’t matter... the more we’re lied to the smarter we get...
Branches: Ruling Coalition Joint Secretariat. Label: Political Fuel
Politician: Subsidies are blowing out... you must economise on fuel and electricity...
March 2012
Sleeve reads policies, security cable reads fuel.
With the hoarding of fuel and other goods already resulting in scarcities and rising prices in many parts of the country, rights groups have slammed a plan to deploy the army to control street protests against planned fuel price hike in April saying the military should not be used as a tool to deal with opposition to government policies and that
Man: There’s a natural balance: There is the sky and the earth, there is day and night, those who are poor and those who are rich, and there are things that go up...
Kid: And things that fall!
Man: Ah, you only come to us in the lead up to elections Mr...
Politician: No... I also come for your taxes...
Man: Good idea Mr! Don’t jail or impoverish corruptors... just hang them!
Woman: Why did he ask that it be at Monas?
Man: Because he’s a senior official (pe-tinggi, lit someone high up)
Legislator: It is forbidden to be corrupt, accept bribes, broker projects, play truant, wear mini-skirts!
Man: Is there still hope for this republic of complete indifference, aside from God...
Kid: There is Dad!
February 2012
Official: Pay your tax, its compulsory... Shame on you! (Money bag reads: Tax revenue)
Man: Yes... but when are you going to give me some thought Mr?
Former Miss Indonesia Angelina Sondakh, a legislator from President Yudhoyono’s ruling Democrat Party and suspect in a high-profile corruption scandal, angered millions who watched her recent court testimony in the trial of former party treasurer Muhammad Nazaruddin when she insisted she knew nothing about a BlackBerry messenger conversation wit
While last month’s announcement by Fitch Ratings that Indonesia’s national sovereign rating had been raised to investment level is good news for the richest top 10% of the population who benefit from the country’s economic growth rate of 6.7%, Health Ministry data shows that the percentage of children experiencing stunted growth as a result of m
Hand: Get the job finished...
Arm band reads: Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK). Safe reads: Corruption cases.
Street signs read: Road with no end, Comedy St, Law & Justice St, Dead End St, Road to Hell, Malang Apple Rd, Washington Apple Rd, Politics St, Road to Heaven.
1st Man: One drop of indigo stains the whole cauldron of milk...
2nd Man: Or was the milk already damaged to begin with.