Man: Bored yet Mr! Forget about it until there’s a change of administration then dig it up again like usual!
Kid: A political Pandora’s box
Man: Bored yet Mr! Forget about it until there’s a change of administration then dig it up again like usual!
Kid: A political Pandora’s box
Say no to corruption!
Say no to the drug mafia!
Say no to illegal rice imports!
Say no to... such-and-such... eh... accountability!
Smoke reads: Natural disasters, volcanic eruptions, flash floods, politics, corruption, Constitutional Court bribes, Upstream Oil and Gas Regulator bribery, political parties, election witness fees...
Sign reads: 2014 Festival of Democracy (2014 legislative and presidential elections)
Man: It’s a level 3 alert!
Kid: Dynasties aren’t just in Banten are they Mr?
Man: Ahh, all that’s changed is the year and they’ve gotten older...
Caleg: It’s also changed my fortunes!
Man speaking to KPK chief Abraham Samad and Supreme Audit Agency head Hadi Poernomo: What’s important is where the money went Mr!
Kid: The money’s found its way far and wide... and in the end...
Man: Don’t go saying my party is a corrupt party!
Man: There are still lots of masked monkeys like this in Jakarta right Mr?
Man: A fantasy umbrella waving in the morning sun, hey, hey who is she...
Kid: May I see your radiant face... hey, hey Bunda Putri... (from the song Payung Fantasi by Ismail Marzuk)
Observers say that the arrest of Constitutional Court Chief Justice Akil Mochtar on corruption charges has severely shaken the public’s faith in the judicial system and ordinary people are starting to despair in the face of a litany of corruption and bribery cases involving every branch of power – legislative, judicial and executive.
The only real surprise about Constitutional Court (MK) chief justice Akil Mochtar’s arrest on corruption charges is the political amnesia of those who have joined the chorus of condemnation against him: former MK chiefs who paved the way for graft in the court by curtailing the Judicial Commission’s oversight powers, lawmakers who extend Akil’s
The arrest of Constitutional Court (Mahkamah Konstitusi) chief justice Akil Mochtar on corruption charges has been described as a ‘national disgrace’ and highlighted the fact that corruption had infiltrated all levels of the legislative, judicial and executive branches of government.
Man: They’re two terrorists Mr... the first kills millions of ordinary people slowly... the other kills in an instant...
Kid: It looks like the mad cow disease is spreading Dad?
Man: It’s not mad cow disease, they’re cow-crazy (to become crazy about making money from cows)!
Prizes read (clockwise): 2014 elections, high prices, security forces shootings, weakening rupiah, riots, oil and gas corruption.
Sherr Rinn – Between 2010-12 there was an awakening of the Indonesian labour movement that can be seen in the writings of people such as Danial Indrakusuma, Rahmat, Tarikh, Hidayah and Rekomendasi.
Jakarta – More than half of voters are confused about the current political situation. A survey by the Soegeng Sarjadi School of Government indicates that as many as 51.45 percent of respondents have yet to make their choice of political party. Yet the 2014 legislative and presidential elections are less that a year away.
From an oped piece titled The Social Exhibitionism of Politikus (Politikus – literally ‘political rat’, a derogatory term for politicians)
Bomb reads: Terrorism, Bank Century scandal, Lapindo mudflow disaster, Hambalang corruption scandal, narcotics, police general’s fat bank accounts, beef import scandal, fuel price hikes, Poso sectarian violence, etc...