Corruption & Abuse of Power

April 2012

Cartoons/Indonesia
Kompas – April 11, 2012

Advocates for local fishing communities say the government is turning a blind eye to illegal fish imports and ignoring a 2010 law on imported fishery products by failing to destroy illegally imported shipments, which are sold cheap on local markets by corrupt officials and are destroying the livelihoods of local fisherpeople, already struggling

March 2012

Cartoons/Indonesia
Kompas – March 17, 2012

Man: Good idea Mr! Don’t jail or impoverish corruptors... just hang them!

Cartoons/Indonesia
Kompas – March 14, 2012

Woman: Why did he ask that it be at Monas?

Man: Because he’s a senior official (pe-tinggi, lit someone high up)

February 2012

Cartoons/Indonesia
Kompas – February 25, 2012

Man: Yes... but when are you going to give me some thought Mr?

Cartoons/Indonesia
Kompas – February 24, 2012

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

Cartoons/Indonesia
Kompas – February 15, 2012

Hand: Get the job finished...

Arm band reads: Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK). Safe reads: Corruption cases.

Cartoons/Indonesia
Kompas – February 11, 2012

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.

Cartoons/Indonesia
Kompas – February 8, 2012

1st Man: One drop of indigo stains the whole cauldron of milk...

2nd Man: Or was the milk already damaged to begin with.

Cartoons/Indonesia
Kompas – February 4, 2012

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)

January 2012

Cartoons/Indonesia
Kompas – January 18, 2012

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)