Man: Don’t go saying my party is a corrupt party!
Drunken Republic Cartoons
November 2013
With hordes of cheap, new cars and motorcycles continuing to hit the city’s streets, and the two rail-based public transit networks not expected to be ready until at least 2016, experts have warned that Jakarta faces total gridlock in 2014.
Man: There are still lots of masked monkeys like this in Jakarta right Mr?
October 2013
Man: A fantasy umbrella waving in the morning sun, hey, hey who is she...
Kid: May I see your radiant face... hey, hey Bunda Putri... (from the song Payung Fantasi by Ismail Marzuk)
Observers say that the arrest of Constitutional Court Chief Justice Akil Mochtar on corruption charges has severely shaken the public’s faith in the judicial system and ordinary people are starting to despair in the face of a litany of corruption and bribery cases involving every branch of power – legislative, judicial and executive.
Cat: A dynasty? What’s wrong with that if you can do it...
Man: If you can bribe people right Mr?
Migrant workers: We’re always the victims. Platform reads Foreign Exchange Heroes, bubble reads Legal Protection.
President Yudhoyono: Save the MK
Kid: That’s all very well but when will we be saved Dad?
The only real surprise about Constitutional Court (MK) chief justice Akil Mochtar’s arrest on corruption charges is the political amnesia of those who have joined the chorus of condemnation against him: former MK chiefs who paved the way for graft in the court by curtailing the Judicial Commission’s oversight powers, lawmakers who extend Akil’s
The arrest of Constitutional Court (Mahkamah Konstitusi) chief justice Akil Mochtar on corruption charges has been described as a ‘national disgrace’ and highlighted the fact that corruption had infiltrated all levels of the legislative, judicial and executive branches of government.
Man: A comic farce! Meanwhile our legal system remains a tragedy!
September 2013
Hidayat: Cheap cars! What’s wrong with the little people driving cars?
Kid: Ordinary people driving cars is a sign of prosperity right Dad?
Man: What’s wrong with the little people cycling... as long as they don’t eat dry left over rice and tempeh made from peanut residue anymore!
Man: It seems that money is more agung (grand, exalted, high, noble). Chair reads Hakim Agung (Supreme Court justice), step reads selection.
Kid: For the convention test: Tempeh made from peanut and soybean residue... they’re fond of that right Mr?
Man: Cheap cars? Relax... our roads are still free and easy
Man: They’re two terrorists Mr... the first kills millions of ordinary people slowly... the other kills in an instant...
Kid: It looks like the mad cow disease is spreading Dad?
Man: It’s not mad cow disease, they’re cow-crazy (to become crazy about making money from cows)!
Businessmen: Ah, absolutely delicious
Man: Duh, very bitter and hard