Bagus Kurniawan, Yogyakarta – Scores of people held a protest action opposition the recent increases in basic electricity rates (TDL) and the price of LPG gas canisters in the Central Java city of Yogyakarta on Saturday August 7. They also called on the government to cancel the price hikes and opposed the use of 3kg LPG gas canisters.
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August 2010
Home to almost 10 million people, 8 million motorcycles and 3 million cars, Jakarta is the only mega-city in the world without a mass rapid transport system, and it is now commonplace for people to spend four or more hours commuting to and from work each day.
Kid: So what’s crooked, you or the building?
Legislator: The camera.
July 2010
Over the eight years of Venezuela Bolivarian Revolution, it has never been free of intervention, harassment and provocation by the United State government.
Driver: Before ‘time was money’, now time is always traffic Mr...
From an opinion piece in the Jakarta daily Kompas by Kontras coordinator Usman Hamid titled “The Attorney General and Justice for the Victims”.
Man: The Bank Century case, this case that case, case XYZ, to the piggy bank case, they will all be fully investigated! Full, full, fully!
Kid: Will!
1st Man: By 2050 many of our islands will be under water.
2nd Man: What’s important is they’re safe till 2014, right?
Politicians: My job is to make policy, my job is to procure canisters... my job is this, my job is that...
Man holding gas canister: My job... is to accept my fate...




