Sleeve reads policies, security cable reads fuel.
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March 2012
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!
Tomi Sujatmiko, Yogya – Scores of housewives from the Political Union of the FIXX Poor (Persatuan Politik Rakyat Miskin, PPRM) demonstrated against the government’s proposed fuel (BBM) price hikes in front of the Gedung Agung Presidential Palace in the Central Java city of Yogyakarta on Saturday March 17.
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!
Jakarta – The proposed banning of mini-skirts in an around the House of Representatives (DPR) was one of the issues taken up in an action commemorating International Women’s Day in front of the State Palace in Central Jakarta on Thursday.
Medan – The commemoration of International Women’s Day on March 8 was enlivened by a demonstration by scores of women in front of the North Sumatra Regional House of Representatives (DPRD) in Medan. The protesters said that women are still treated unjustly and subordinated in numerous ways.