From an op-ed piece titled The Future of the DPD on an intensifying power struggle within the Regional Representatives Council (DPD) over the leadership of the institution.
Drunken Republic Cartoons
April 2017
March 2017
Man: Usually the little people get defeated right Mr?
Kid: Who’s idea was it to make our housewives suffer like this?
Kid: A barometer of Indonesia democrazy
Chair reads ‘Jakarta election round II’, fire reads ‘Terror, sectarian politics’, hose reads ‘The law’.
Muqoddas: The world of politics will be rocked! (document reads: e-KTP feeding frenzy, legislative, executive, political parties...)
Kid: Watch out for the backlash Mr!
Kid: Endless comparative studies... when will they smarten up Dad? (document reads Draft Election Law)
February 2017
Kid: There's somebody who defiantly won't be able to get a good night's sleep right Dad! (Gun reads 'manipulation')
Kid: Round II of the presidential feeling regional election... so when will Round III be Dad?
Man: 2019
Kid: Careful Mr! Still water often runs deep
Indonesia's graft ridden judicial system has suffered yet another blow to its image after the Corruption Eradication Commission declared Constitutional Court (MK) justice Patrialis Akbar and three others suspects in a bribery case in which Akbar allegedly received bribes of US
January 2017
Lawyers representing Jakarta Governor Basuki 'Ahok' Tjahaja Purnama, who is on trial for alleged blasphemy, say that their client is being 'tried by the mob' following testimony by the prosecution witness that originally reported Ahok who admitted under oath that he forced pol
Kid: Looking for something hotter and selling cheap? I've got it Mr... Hate speech (signs read 'Cheep chilies', 'Rotten chilies')
1st Man: What you cooking up brother, it really stinks?
2nd Man: Don't worry, I'll add this later and it'll cover the smell...
Bottle reads: 'Religion', pot reads: 'Corruption, sectarian issues, power struggles'
December 2016
Widodo: Our enemy isn't [our] diversity but corruption (figure reads 'Intolerance')
Demon: Hate speech, provocation, intolerance, slander, defamation, hoax news
Kid: Dad... Bandung flood, landslides, earthquakes, bomb threats
November 2016
Umbrella reads 'Fraternity', bouquet reads 'Intan'
Hand puppets: Sectarian conflicts! Anarchy! Provocation! Slander! Amoral politicking! Hatred!
Man: It's all quite normal... it's what you call democrazy
Concerns over the possibly of violence at a rally scheduled for November 4 organised by Islamic hardliners demanding Jakarta Governor Basuki 'Ahok' Tjahaja Purnama be arrested and charged with blasphemy prompted President Widodo to pose for awkward photos on horseback alongsid
October 2016
Kid: Where's the result of two years work? We're still poor!
Man: Patience... you want to get rich in an instant? Hurry off and see a mystic who can multiply banknotes...
From an op-ed piece title 'Robbing your own country'