Political Parties & Elections

June 2014

News/Indonesia
Bisnis.com – June 6, 2014

Miftahul Khoer, Jakarta – The Jakarta Legal Aid Foundation (LBH) has disclosed that there are at least 35 retired generals supporting the Joko Widodo-Jusuf Kalla or Jokowi-JK presidential ticket.

May 2014

Cartoons/Indonesia
Kompas – May 31, 2014

Kid: A wager Dad... the bicycle vs the horse... which one will win?

Cartoons/Indonesia
Kompas – May 24, 2014

Writing on clown reads: Track record, transactional politics, political acrobatics, black campaigns. Ballot paper reads: Conscience.

Cartoons/Indonesia
Kompas – May 21, 2014

Man: Thinking about our misfortunes right Mr?

News/Indonesia
Petikan.com – May 19, 2014

Editorial staff – Senior Indonesian Democratic Party of Struggle (PDI-P) figure Sabam Sirait says that PDI-P vice presidential candidate Jusuf Kalla (JK) who will run alongside PDI-P presidential candidate Joko “Jokowi” Widodo in the 2014 presidential elections deposited 10 trillion rupiah (US$870 million) with PDI-P chairperson Megawati Sukarno

Cartoons/Indonesia
Kompas – May 17, 2014

Kid: What kind of leader will we get? (newspaper reads ‘Money Politics’)

Cartoons/Indonesia
Kompas – May 3, 2014

Kid: We need a real leader!

Man: Naturally all our leaders are... hardened (criminal) leaders!

April 2014

News/West Papua
KNPB News – April 23, 2014

Jayapura – The call by the West Papua National Committee (KNPB) chairperson to boycott the July 9 presidential election in Papua has become a threat for Indonesia and West Papua.

Cartoons/Indonesia
Kompas – April 19, 2014

Kid: So coalitions are like that yeah Dad? (cake reads ‘power’, badges read ‘political party X’, ‘political party Y’, ‘political party Z’)

Cartoons/Indonesia
Kompas – April 16, 2014

Man: What we’re invariably left with is nepotism/lots of hassles (a play on the word nepotisme)