Corruption & Abuse of Power

September 2014

News/Indonesia
Kompas.com – September 15, 2014

Wijaya Kusuma, Yogyakarta – Investigators from the municipal police Special Crimes Detective Unit (Dit Reskrimsus) in the Central Java city of Yogyakarta have seized two luxury cars from the Yogyakarta-Central Java chairperson of the Islamic Defenders Front, Bambang Tedy.

Cartoons/Indonesia
Business mafia

Man: Later this kind of thing won’t happen anymore like now, right Mr?

March 2014

Cartoons/Indonesia
Kompas – March 26, 2014

Man (speaking to KPK chief Abraham Samad): There’s an unpleasant odor of social aid funds isn’t there Mr?

Cartoons/Indonesia
Kompas – March 6, 2014

Kid: Rushing it aren’t we?

Man (Speaking to KPK chief Abraham Samad): Mr, do you think perhaps that future former officials are afraid of being made to wear KPK vests!

February 2014

Cartoons/Indonesia
Kompas – February 22, 2014

Man: Bored yet Mr! Forget about it until there’s a change of administration then dig it up again like usual!

Kid: A political Pandora’s box

November 2013

Cartoons/Indonesia
Kompas – November 30, 2013

Man speaking to KPK chief Abraham Samad and Supreme Audit Agency head Hadi Poernomo: What’s important is where the money went Mr!

Kid: The money’s found its way far and wide... and in the end...

October 2013

Cartoons/Indonesia
Kompas – October 26, 2013

Man: A fantasy umbrella waving in the morning sun, hey, hey who is she...

Kid: May I see your radiant face... hey, hey Bunda Putri... (from the song Payung Fantasi by Ismail Marzuk)

September 2013

Cartoons/Indonesia
Kompas – September 7, 2013

Kid: It looks like the mad cow disease is spreading Dad?

Man: It’s not mad cow disease, they’re cow-crazy (to become crazy about making money from cows)!

June 2013

Cartoons/Indonesia
Kompas – June 25, 2013

From an oped piece titled The Social Exhibitionism of Politikus (Politikus – literally ‘political rat’, a derogatory term for politicians)

April 2013

Cartoons/Indonesia
Kompas – April 27, 2013

Writing on donkey reads: “Legislative candidate”, corrupt politicians, fugitives from justice, hoodlums, insane, falsified deplomas...

Scroll reads: corruption, bribes, overseas junkets, project brokers, skipping meetings, huge salary++, a Hummer car...

Kid: A bet Dad... history will repeat itself.