Cartoons

November 2008

Cartoons/Indonesia
Kompas – November 22, 2008

Sign in rice field: Here will be built the Trans Java highway

Kid: Yahoo...! With the compensation we can buy a car right dad!

Cartoons/Indonesia
Kompas – November 19, 2008

Writing on semi-trailer: 2028. Rice imports.

Experts are warning that the failure to invest in infrastructure and a steady decline in arable land due to environmental degradation and land conversion for housing and industry will result in Indonesia becoming almost entirely dependent upon food imports to meet its needs.

Cartoons/Indonesia
Kompas – November 12, 2008

Man: Hey, don’t forget to arrest the hoodlums in ties Mr...!

Writing on shirt: hooliganism

October 2008

Cartoons/Indonesia
Kompas – October 29, 2008

Writing on worm: KKN – Corruption, Collusion, Nepotism

Caption: One basket full, the Indonesian basket [case]. A play on words taken from the October 28, 1928 Youth Pledge: one state, one nation and one language – Indonesia.

Cartoons/Indonesia
Kompas – October 23, 2008

Background: House of Representatives building

Badges read: Legislative candidate

The large number of family members of party leaders contesting the 2009 elections has raised concerns that it will further erode the quality and image of the House, dubbed as one of the most corruption and incompetent institutions in the country.

Cartoons/Indonesia
Kompas – October 18, 2008

Woman: ...Global financial crisis, local crisis, high prices...

Man: ...No problem... Our economic foundations are solid you know...

Badge reads: Vote for me.

Writing on drum reads: 2009 elections.

Cartoons/Indonesia
Kompas – October 15, 2008

Black hose reads: Infrastructure

White hose reads: Bureaucracy

Writing on pot plant: Investment

Cartoons/Indonesia
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!

Cartoons/Indonesia
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!