Cartoons

May 2015

Cartoons/Indonesia
Kompas – May 9, 2015

Kid: So you won’t be looking after the crocodile (the police) any more right Mr? (Dog collar reads Scenthound)

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Kompas – May 5, 2015

Despite the souring cost of rice on the market, the price of unhusked rice (gabah) produced by local farmers has fallen to around 0.37 US cents per kilogram.

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Kompas – May 2, 2015

An East Java court sentenced 70-year old Asyani to 15 months probation and a US$40,000 fine for stealing seven pieces of wood belonging to state company PT Perhutani. Asyani insists she took the wood from her own land years ago but lacked the proper documentation.

April 2015

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Kompas – April 29, 2015

Following a series of regulatory flip-flops and erratic policy-making moves, President Widodo’s much touted Nawacita or nine priorities agenda appears to be going in circles.

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Kompas – April 25, 2015

Man: You’re in a really big hurry to become a minister aren’t you? (wheels read ‘problems inherited from the past’, ‘political uproar’)

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Kompas – April 22, 2015

Sign reads: Airport

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Kompas – April 18, 2015

Kid: Mr, are you a party official or...

Man: A state official stupid!

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Kompas – April 15, 2015

Fears that Indonesia is in the grip of a national ‘drugs emergency’ that is decimating the country’s youth were confirmed Monday after the National Narcotics Agency said it had busted an online operation selling marijuana brownies and arrested three people, one of whom attempted to justify the crime – for which they could receive the death penal

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Kompas – April 8, 2015

It’s not a sea, just a pond of milk, a hook and net is enough to sustain you (from the song Pond of Milk by Koes Plus)

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Kompas – April 4, 2015

Kid: Is there any ‘Dilkin’ (Justice for the poor) Dad?

Man: What there is... is ‘Misnurani’... a poverty of conscience!

Gaskin/Raskin – Subsidised LPG and rice for the poor. Newspaper headlines: Grandmother Asyani, Police vs KPK, Political uproar, Fat bank accounts, Robbers.