Man: Stay tuned for the next episode in the soap opera...
Drunken Republic Cartoons
February 2013
Megaphone reads ‘Social aid’, arm band reads Gubernatorial candidate.
Yudhoyono: To save the party!
Common man: What about me Mr?
Man: Don’t take wrong door Mr! (Left door reads ‘politics’, box carried by KPK chair Abraham Samad reads ‘Anas case’)
Cow: If I’m contaminated with rat and scapegoat virus, is my meat still edible Mr?
January 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!
Sanusi: Rape? They might enjoy it right?
Man: It seems we all enjoy opening pornographic websites right Mr...
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
Baskets read: 2004, 2009 political party election pledges
Politician: We’ll give you some more later...
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...
Blusuk(an) – To fall into accidently, to wander about, to keep entering places where one doesn’t belong, an impromptu visit by an official.
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?
December 2012
From left to right: Djoko Susilo, Muhammad Nazaruddin, Wa Ode Nurhayati, Andi Mallarangeng, Achmad Yamanie, Anas Urbaningrum, Angelina Sondakh.
Drum reads: Politicisation and commercialisation of the law.
Man: Relax, we’re used to surviving without leadership