Legislator: Don’t play favourites (pointing to KPK chief Abraham Samad)
Drunken Republic Cartoons
September 2012
Man: If you open this Pandora’s Box, who’s going to pop out Mr?
...Officials shouldn’t have dual loyalties
Muqoddas: Please, set an example Mr!
Man: The king is willing to give up his party, yeah right!
Man: Now that it’s all over, how come it’s just being abandoned?
Youth & Sports Minister Andi Mallarangeng: It’s a National Sports Project isn’t it.
Puppets: Violence... horizontal clashes!
Man: Disregarding a phenomena that keeps repeating itself... that’s a failed republic
Kid: No it’s not Dad... it’s a prosperous republic postponed!
August 2012
Bhinneka Tunggal Ika: The national motto, Unity in Diversity
1st Man: The law must be enforced firmly and fairly...
2nd Man: Yeah, give an example
Carpet reads: Remissions
Man: It’s not favouritism, or is it favouritism, or favouring the rich, or good conduct?
National Police Chief Gen. Timur Pradopo: Where’s your driver’s license!
Man: In this case you can be sure it not just prit-jigo (when a cop blows a whistle then asks for a bribe)
July 2012
Man: It’s just a parcel... where’s the tempeh?
Official: We are not a tempeh nation
Man: Then what kind of nation are we? A parcel nation...
Poker machine reads: Election of Regional heads
Man: Jackpot democracy...
Agrarian rights activists say that the government’s policy of trade liberalisation and implementing an almost zero-tariff policy has led to a flood of imported food into the country and is impoverishing more than 44 million farmers who depend upon the land for their survival.
The “Lapindo(s) Beauty Spa” as it is jokingly called, referring to the massive Lapindo mud flow disaster in East Java blamed on drilling by a company linked to Golkar Party chairperson and business tycoon Aburizal Bakrie (right), continues to dog his 2014 presidential ambitions with two victims receiving widespread media coverage as they near th
1st Man: Conflicts in the regions continue to smolder Mr...
2nd Man: Is he even listening?
June 2012
A public donation campaign ‘Coins for the KPK’ has been launched after the House of Representatives (bottom) – which again topped a list of corrupt institutions according to a survey earlier this month – refused to release Rp225 billion allocated from the state budget for the desperately needed construction of a new Corruption Eradication Commis
Kid looking at election campaign posters: It’s a pretty lively contest yeah...
Man: That’s the way it is with business...
Man: Which one’s in reverse... and which one’s in forward... (baggage reads ‘political hostages’)
As the political parties prepare to do battle in the 2014 general and presidential elections, anti-corruption activists warn that politically related graft cases over the next two years will increase sharply since most campaign funds are raised from illegal sources – corruption, corporate blackmail, milking state-owned companies and money from g
Speaking in Bogor before setting out for the UN Sustainable Development Conference in Rio de Janeiro, President Yudhoyono appealed to global leaders to move toward a green economy saying Indonesia had adopted an environmentally sustainable model of economic growth where its forests were prized and protected.