Sri when will you come home. You left without telling me. They say you went to the market to buy prawn paste, but you still haven’t come home... come back now Sri... come back now. (adapted from Sri Ran Away by Sony Josz)

Man: Rattan also needs image building, right?

Rattan producers say that the government needs to promote the rattan industry and lift a ban on the export of unprocessed fiber, which has resulted in a dramatic decline in the numbers of raw rattan producers and threatens a formerly a reliable source of income for many local communities.

Observers say that without the vote pulling appeal if its patron President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono – who is not be eligible to run for the presidency again – the Democrat Party vehicle will find itself in the political doldrums come the 2014 general elections.

1st Man: Now we’re free from terrorism

2nd Man: Free? Are you kidding?

Suits: Political parties, funny companies, tax mafia

Government official: Up for auction, up for auction...

Man: Ooo... So it’s worth as much as that...

Liberation

Man: In just a moment we will witness the comic play Gecko vs the Crocodile Part II... staring: Godzilla the case broker!!

Sign reads: Republic of clowns

High school graduate: I passed honestly...

Man: So later if you become a government official you’ll still be like that right?

Sleeve reads: Vested interests. Cap reads: Public Order Agency.

Man: In this case right, the common people are being played off against each other.

Kid: What says the world?

After the darkness let the light appear... but it’s getting dark again Sister...

Document: Child rape, domestic violence, migrant worker sexual abuse...

Kid: This scandal, that scandal, there’s no end to it... so what’s the broad national development program Sir?

Politician (chair reads “Republic of Clowns”): Build as maaaaany prisons as possible.

Farmers: Sir, our rice harvest has failed and we’re threatened with starvation...

Politician: My position is also under threat, don’t you know!

Sign: Sumba, NTT. Envelope: Corruption suspect

Anti-graft activists say that the root cause of most poverty, hunger and suffering in East Nusa Tenggara is rampant corruption.

Words on tree: KKN – Collusion, corruption and nepotism

1st Man: It’s really flourishing.

2nd Man: What is?

Smart people (don’t) pay tax
Smart people (corrupt) tax
Smart people (collude to avoid) tax
Smart people (do shady deals) tax
Smart people (embezzle) tax...

Kid: So only stupid people pay tax, right Dad? What says the world!

Kid: Why are they running around naked and exposing each other! That’s porno right Dad? What must the world be saying?

Hello hello Bandung, city of memories, long has it been since I last visited you, now you have become a sea of flood, brothers let us replant.

(Adapted from the 1945 revolutionary song Hello Hello Bandung by Ismail Marzuki)

Susno Duadji: Fitting aren’t I?

1st Man: Soccer hooligan mania, corruption mania, mafia mania, case broker mania, it’s all just the same...

2nd Man: The same, how so?

1st Man: They’re all wreaking the country.

Kid: After the reality shows on TV, the gang fights, the Century uproar, then terrorism, what’s next dad?

Man: Why do you care so much? What’s important is scratching out a living! Get it?