Cartoons

October 2008

Cartoons/Indonesia
Kompas – October 15, 2008

Black hose reads: Infrastructure

White hose reads: Bureaucracy

Writing on pot plant: Investment

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Kompas – October 11, 2008

Man: Mr JK’s conundrum: The chicken or the egg, which came first? A job or an ID, which comes first? An ID of course! They can be bought right!... Safe! ... Jakarta! This is me!

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Kompas – October 8, 2008
Investors Wall Street Greedy

September 2008

Cartoons/Indonesia
Kompas – September 27, 2008

Man: 70 year retirement age, what’s wrong with that?! I’m not taking advantage of it... but at 70 year’s of age, we’re loved by the angels and God!... Don’t you know! (Sign on chair: Supreme Court)

Kid: So, you’re getting close to heaven’s gate right Mr!

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Kompas – September 24, 2008

Legislators: Supreme Court justice retirement age becomes 70 years... Agreeeeed!

Legislators: Remember me okay... (right 67-year-old Supreme Court chief justice Bagir Manan).

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Kompas – September 20, 2008

Top: Queuing for alms...

Bottom: Queuing for bribes!

21 women were killed on September 17 in a stampede during the distribution of alms to a crowd in Pasuruan. Scores of former and current lawmakers meanwhile have been linked with a massive bribery scandal involving the deliberation of a bill on the central bank.

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Kompas – September 17, 2008

Writing on wreath of flowers: Pasuruan Tragedy.

Basket on right: 20,000 rupiah note.

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Kompas – September 13, 2008

Kid: Lucky we don’t have to bother about visiting our home village at the end of the fasting month, right Dad!

Sign in mud: Lapindo – referring to the Lapindo mud disaster in East Java that has now inundated 700 hectares and displaced some 36,000 people.

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Kompas – September 10, 2008

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The Supertoy HL2 rice hoax linked to the presidential office has revealed nepotism and cronyism among President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono’s inner circle.

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Kompas – September 3, 2008

Arm band reads: Global capitalism.