Legislator: It is forbidden to be corrupt, accept bribes, broker projects, play truant, wear mini-skirts!
Drunken Republic Cartoons
March 2012
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.
Man: How dare they embezzle money so shamelessly!
Kid: Perhaps they’re high on drugs Dad! (alluding to a series of recent drug cases involving state officials)
Relax... we’re used to riding a train without a driver, right...
January 2012
Man: Deputy regents (wakil bupati – regent’s representative) want to be regents! Deputy governors (wakil gubernur – governor’s representative) want to be governors! So Mr representative of the people (wakil rakyat) why don’t you want to be one of the people!
Trolley reads: Infrastructure and Public Utilities Budget
Man: The predatory republic?
Headline reads: Agrarian Law. Roll reads: Land Management.
1st Man: That’s the big boss, the chief and the big chief’s share
2nd Man: While our share’s a flood alert right (apel = alert or apple)
A 17-year-old boy at the center of a legal and public relations storm was found guilty on Wednesday of stealing a pair of sandals from a police officer and released into the custody of his parents.
Arm band reads: Corruptor
The arrest of a juvenile who stole a pair of cheap sandals is only the latest in a series of cases where police have locked up children for petty crimes while rampant official corruption and theft of millions in public funds is often punished with just a slap on the wrist.
Oh God... I just pray for retirement... because my job in this country has been taken over by government officials!
Man: Optimistic?
Flood waters read: Corruption, mafia, violence...