With the hoarding of fuel and other goods already resulting in scarcities and rising prices in many parts of the country, rights groups have slammed a plan to deploy the army to control street protests against planned fuel price hike in April saying the military should not be used as a tool to deal with opposition to government policies and that

Man: There’s a natural balance: There is the sky and the earth, there is day and night, those who are poor and those who are rich, and there are things that go up...

Kid: And things that fall!

Man: Ah, you only come to us in the lead up to elections Mr...

Politician: No... I also come for your taxes...

Man: Good idea Mr! Don’t jail or impoverish corruptors... just hang them!

Woman: Why did he ask that it be at Monas?

Man: Because he’s a senior official (pe-tinggi, lit someone high up)

Legislator: It is forbidden to be corrupt, accept bribes, broker projects, play truant, wear mini-skirts!

Man: Is there still hope for this republic of complete indifference, aside from God...

Kid: There is Dad!

Official: Pay your tax, its compulsory... Shame on you! (Money bag reads: Tax revenue)

Man: Yes... but when are you going to give me some thought Mr?

Former Miss Indonesia Angelina Sondakh, a legislator from President Yudhoyono’s ruling Democrat Party and suspect in a high-profile corruption scandal, angered millions who watched her recent court testimony in the trial of former party treasurer Muhammad Nazaruddin when she insisted she knew nothing about a BlackBerry messenger conversation wit

While last month’s announcement by Fitch Ratings that Indonesia’s national sovereign rating had been raised to investment level is good news for the richest top 10% of the population who benefit from the country’s economic growth rate of 6.7%, Health Ministry data shows that the percentage of children experiencing stunted growth as a result of m

Air Force One: Republic of Brokers

Hand: Get the job finished...

Arm band reads: Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK). Safe reads: Corruption cases.

Street signs read: Road with no end, Comedy St, Law & Justice St, Dead End St, Road to Hell, Malang Apple Rd, Washington Apple Rd, Politics St, Road to Heaven.

1st Man: One drop of indigo stains the whole cauldron of milk...

2nd Man: Or was the milk already damaged to begin with.

Man: How dare they embezzle money so shamelessly!

Kid: Perhaps they’re high on drugs Dad! (alluding to a series of recent drug cases involving state officials)

Relax... we’re used to riding a train without a driver, right...

Man: Deputy regents (wakil bupati – regent’s representative) want to be regents! Deputy governors (wakil gubernur – governor’s representative) want to be governors! So Mr representative of the people (wakil rakyat) why don’t you want to be one of the people!

Trolley reads: Infrastructure and Public Utilities Budget

Man: The predatory republic?

Headline reads: Agrarian Law. Roll reads: Land Management.