Educators say that the government’s insistence on emphasising religious studies and citizenship education at the expense of science, social studies and English in the new elementary school curriculum – supposedly to create honest and moral students – shows how little value is placed on critical thinking and is just another example of the tendenc

Baskets read: 2004, 2009 political party election pledges

Politician: We’ll give you some more later...

Man greeting President Yudhoyono: Wow... an impromptu visit... [but we need] solutions... not concerned speeches Mr!

Kid: As is being awaited in Poso, Papua, Bima, Mesuji, corruption prone regencies and so forth...

Blusuk(an) – To fall into accidently, to wander about, to keep entering places where one doesn’t belong, an impromptu visit by an official.

They’ll be lots of big initiatives this year! Mr President SBY will act firmly and resolutely, incompetent ministers will be sacked, the Bank Century and Lapindo cases will be resolved once and for all, the narcotics mafia will be shot, poverty will be eradicated, corruptors will be hung!

Kid: The Republic of As Ifs?

Cart reads Economy.

From left to right: Djoko Susilo, Muhammad Nazaruddin, Wa Ode Nurhayati, Andi Mallarangeng, Achmad Yamanie, Anas Urbaningrum, Angelina Sondakh.

Drum reads: Politicisation and commercialisation of the law.

Man: Relax, we’re used to surviving without leadership

Drum reads: Political racket

Man: Arrogance and personal ambition.

Man: Horeee... Indonesia’s the champion (Cup reads International Anti Corruption Day)

Sign reads: Prosperity

In what is becoming a depressingly regular event with the onset of the rainy season each year, torrential rains over the weekend triggered widespread flooding and traffic gridlock throughout much of Jakarta, including the central business district with its iconic Welcome Monument, which is not among the city’s 78 flood-prone areas.

Bags read: Engineering comparative study, Red Cross comparative study, XYZ study.

Kid: There’s collusion here isn’t there Dad?

Lawmakers: Bye... (document in bag reads Comparative Study)

1st Student: Independence is a golden bridge, you know...

2nd Student: So where’s the bridge?

Writing on dragon reads: Corruption, human rights, judicial mafia, terrorism, racial, religious and ethnic conflict, XYZ.

Man (speaking to President Yudhoyono): Try using the keris of Mpu Gandring Mr!

Fauzi: Former [graft] convicts are prohibited from being government officials.

Signs reads Dignity, Corruption, (Malaysian) Ringgit. Bumper reads National Unity Cabinet Volume 2.

Migrant worker: There’s no need to talk about dignity Mr! We just want to be free from poverty!

Bubble reads Legal Protection, cash box reads Foreign Exchange