Cartoons

March 2010

Cartoons/Indonesia
Kompas – March 24, 2010

1st Man: Soccer hooligan mania, corruption mania, mafia mania, case broker mania, it’s all just the same...

2nd Man: The same, how so?

1st Man: They’re all wreaking the country.

Cartoons/Indonesia
Kompas – March 20, 2010

Kid: After the reality shows on TV, the gang fights, the Century uproar, then terrorism, what’s next dad?

Man: Why do you care so much? What’s important is scratching out a living! Get it?

Cartoons/Indonesia
Kompas – March 17, 2010

Man pushing shopping trolley (reading Modern Markets): You sell I buy.

Traditional kiosk and market traders say that the government has been inconsistent with Presidential Decree No 112/2007 on the protection of traditional markets with the rapid and uncontrolled growth of modern markets in urban centers driving them out of business.

Cartoons/Indonesia
Kompas – March 13, 2010

Background: House of Representatives building.

Kid: Hey Mr... if you want to horse trade, why not just go to the livestock market?

Cartoons/Indonesia
Kompas – March 10, 2010

After years of relative peace, analysts and ordinary Indonesian’s alike were shocked by the discovery of a paramilitary training camp in the mountainous regions of Aceh Besar allegedly linked to Jemaah Islamiyah.

Cartoons/Indonesia
Kompas – March 6, 2010

Kid: Dad... 6.7 trillion, how many zeros has that go in it?

Cartoons/Indonesia
Kompas – March 3, 2010

Critics have responded to recent remarks by legislators who have labeled student protests against them as “brainless” by saying that they should be ashamed of their poor attendance record and performance and that it’s a “no-brainer” to expect to pass proper legislation if you’re not there to deliberate it.

February 2010

Cartoons/Indonesia
Kompas – February 27, 2010

Kid: Forgetting, forgetting the people again... thinking, just thinking about positions... (Adapted from the hit song Forget Forget Remember by the Grave Band)

Cartoons/Indonesia
Kompas – February 24, 2010

A recent case in which a hospital was accused of denying a family the right to take home and bury the body of their deceased newborn baby because the parents could not meet their medical bill has highlighted the fact that hospitals are still discriminating against poor families who are entitled to free medical treatment.

Cartoons/Indonesia
Kompas – February 20, 2010

Suits: Co-ali-tion. Sign: Vested interests

Man: Who said a coalition for the truth?!

Kid: And not for us right Dad?