Cartoons

May 2026

Cartoons/Indonesia
Kompas Editorial – May 13, 2026

Women with megaphone: Don't get tired of speaking out, women are powerful.

Placards read: Women's rights and Human Rights, Resist.

Women activists in Indonesia are currently facing multiple attacks across various platforms. Attacks against them are no longer limited to physical spaces, but have also spread to the cyber realm.

Cartoons/Indonesia
Kompas.id – May 2, 2026

Click here – too slow. Press this button – I can't press it. 

Father: If you fail, start again from the beginning

Mother: This is indeed made to be difficult

Poki: What game you playing? Looks difficult.

Father: Filling out Coretax

March 2026

Cartoons/Indonesia
Kompas Newspaper – March 18, 2026

Civil society groups have denounced the acid attack against human rights defender Andrie Yunus as a brutal (biadab) and cowardly act aimed at silencing government critics, saying they will not bow down to any intimidation threatening their work.

Cartoons/Indonesia
Kompas.id – March 14, 2026

Father: Our country's on a military alert? What up?

Poki: Why are we on alert? Is it war?

Father: But we're not currently at war. On alert against what threat?

Poki: Perhaps we're on alert over the threat of chili prices [going up] for the [Lebaran] holidays?

February 2026

Cartoons/Indonesia
Kompas.id – February 21, 2026

Poki: Mom, can I have some money to pay club dues.

Mother: A club? What's the program?

Poki: There isn't a program, it's just to be cool.

Mother: Why did you just join a club like that? Paying as well!

Cartoons/Indonesia
Kompas Newspaper – February 18, 2026

Josi: How much longer will it take Mr...? (clipboard reads "Asset Forfiture Bill")

Posi: We've been waiting a long time...

Lawmaker: Just wait a moment, we're going to discuss it.

Cartoons/Indonesia
Kompas.id – February 7, 2026

Poki: Dad, my school bag's worn-out, I need pencils too.

Father: Well, it's important to buy that, have this.

Poki: Only this!? How can that be enough, yeah.

Father: What can I do, the money's been used to replace the roof ties.

Poki: Roof tiles!?

January 2026

Cartoons/Indonesia
Kompas.id – January 31, 2026

2024: Come one, learn to swim, don't be afraid...

2025: I'm not sinking anymore! Ha Ha...

2026: Thanks floods...

Cartoons/Indonesia
Kompas.id – January 24, 2026

Sign reads “State Civil Servant (ASN) Promotions”. Chart reads “Period of Employment 1 year, 5 years, 10 years”. Folders carried by applicants read “Teacher, Teacher, MBG”.

Cat: As a cat, right... food is indeed more important than an education...

Cartoons/Indonesia
Kompas.id – January 18, 2026

Father Terong: Of course! I chose you myself!

Mother: And I myself chose your father as a husband. I'm not Sitti Nurbaya (referring to the novel Sitti Nurbaya: Unrealised Love by Marah Rusli about forced marriages).

Daughter: How come you're sad, depressed Terong?