Drunken Republic Cartoons 2013

March 2013

Indonesia
Kompas – March 20, 2013

Cart reads Prices.

Critics warn that Indonesia’s food supplies are currently under the control of a politically connected “food mafia”, who are taking advantage of market liberalisation to throttle supplies and jack up prices, and have little concern about empowering farmers or contributing to food security.

Indonesia
Kompas – March 16, 2013

Bag reads Political Thuggery, gun reads Politicisation of Thugs.

Indonesia
Kompas – March 2, 2013

Anas: Come on, let’s all run around naked then... if you’ve got the guts!

February 2013

Indonesia
Kompas – February 27, 2013

Man: What will the next page be like?

Indonesia
Kompas – February 23, 2013

Man: Stay tuned for the next episode in the soap opera...

Indonesia
Kompas – February 20, 2013

Megaphone reads ‘Social aid’, arm band reads Gubernatorial candidate.

Indonesia
Kompas – February 16, 2013

Yudhoyono: To save the party!

Common man: What about me Mr?

Indonesia
Kompas – February 13, 2013

Man: Don’t take wrong door Mr! (Left door reads ‘politics’, box carried by KPK chair Abraham Samad reads ‘Anas case’)

Indonesia
Kompas – February 9, 2013

Cow: If I’m contaminated with rat and scapegoat virus, is my meat still edible Mr?

Indonesia
Kompas – February 6, 2013

From an opinion piece titled Women and Religion

Indonesia
Kompas – February 6, 2013

Man: Now we see their true spots (colours)...

January 2013

Indonesia
Kompas – January 26, 2013

Kid: Every dry season the floods get forgotten, before there was talk about overcoming the floods, but it was just ‘will’, only now that Jakarta’s flooded, its all ‘will-will-will’ again. So who’s to blame Dad? The government?

Man: No! The water! Stupid!

Indonesia
Kompas – January 22, 2013

Man: Where to this Jakarta?

Indonesia
Kompas – January 19, 2013

Sanusi: Rape? They might enjoy it right?

Man: It seems we all enjoy opening pornographic websites right Mr...

Indonesia
Kompas – January 18, 2013

Educators say that the government’s insistence on emphasising religious studies and citizenship education at the expense of science, social studies and English in the new elementary school curriculum – supposedly to create honest and moral students – shows how little value is placed on critical thinking and is just another example of the tendenc

Indonesia
Kompas – January 16, 2013

Baskets read: 2004, 2009 political party election pledges

Politician: We’ll give you some more later...

Indonesia
Kompas – January 12, 2013

Man greeting President Yudhoyono: Wow... an impromptu visit... [but we need] solutions... not concerned speeches Mr!

Kid: As is being awaited in Poso, Papua, Bima, Mesuji, corruption prone regencies and so forth...

Indonesia
Kompas – January 9, 2013

Blusuk(an) – To fall into accidently, to wander about, to keep entering places where one doesn’t belong, an impromptu visit by an official.

Indonesia
Kompas – January 5, 2013

They’ll be lots of big initiatives this year! Mr President SBY will act firmly and resolutely, incompetent ministers will be sacked, the Bank Century and Lapindo cases will be resolved once and for all, the narcotics mafia will be shot, poverty will be eradicated, corruptors will be hung!

Kid: The Republic of As Ifs?

Indonesia
Kompas – January 2, 2013

Cart reads Economy.