Political Humor in Indonesian

This article is intended to describe types of political humor in Indonesian on the basis of script opposition theory proposed by Raskin. The data are collected from websites supported by ones placed in humor textbooks or humor collection books, and anecdotal stories. This research found that political humors in Indonesian can simply be classified into two categories, namely denigration jokes and exposure jokes. The first category is created to criticizes individuals or political leaders, social groups, and political slogans. The second category is used for criticizing social conditions that can be further classified into critics against corruption, indiscipline, unhealthy environment, laziness, etc. Quantitatively, political humors that belong to the first category are more dominant than the second category. Accordingly, the more serious investigation is urgently needed to enable explaining the reason underlying this phenomenon.   Keywords: Denigration, Exposure, Humo