Cartoons

June 2026

Cartoons/Indonesia
Kompas.id – June 13, 2026

Poki: Mum, tomorrow we've be told to bring handicraft tools [to school], [but] we haven't bought any yet.

Mother: Why didn't you tell me yesterday? Not late at night like this!! It's very sudden.

Poki: If I'd told you this afternoon you'd have been angry.

Mother: Now I'm even angrier.

Cartoons/Indonesia
Kompas.id – June 13, 2026

Guard: This is lunch for MBG corruption suspects. Guaranteed to be free, nutritious and free of poison.

Cartoons/Indonesia
Kompas.id – June 6, 2026

Mother: The number of rats are growing fast. Where's father Terong (eggplant)? Get him to help us!!!

Kid: Dad keeps going away.

May 2026

Cartoons/Indonesia
Kompas Newspaper – May 20, 2026

Josi: Waduhhh, how come it keeps going down?!

Indonesian President Prabowo Subianto has been widely ridiculed over remarks made during a speech in Nganjuk, East Java, in which he said that the decline in the rupiah's exchange rate does not directly affect rural communities.

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.