Old Man: Don’t cheat, don’t play with hoaxes, be optimistic and tolerant

From an oped piece title The politics of 2018 and the 2019 Elections

Badge reads “Government official legislative candidate”, writing with wings reads “Food prices”.

Writing on shark reads “Corruption”, writing on boat reads “Public Trust”.

According to a report by the Indonesian Survey Institute (LSI) and Indonesia Corruption Watch (ICW) on its latest study on the public’s perception of corruption, 52 percent of respondents in 2018 agreed that corruption levels have increased in some way.

On November 19 a team from Wakatobi National Park found 5.9 kilograms of plastic garbage inside the stomach of a dead sperm whale that had beached on Kapota Island, Southeast Sulawesi.

Man: Take this one, it looks like they’re honest, clean and not corrupt, right Mrs?

Man: If it keeps going like this, when will there be any progress?

Exhaust reads “Mischievous hospital claims”, signs stuck to ambulance read “Drug crisis”, “State Budget Cigarette Tax”, wheel reads “Low premiums”, front of ambulance reads “5.05 trillion rupiah deficit”, road sign reads “Healthy Indonesia”.

President Joko Widodo (left) announced Saturday that all vehicles will be free to use the 5.4 kilometre Suramadu (Surabaya-Madura) toll bridge connecting the East Java provincial capital of Surabaya and Madura Island without charge claiming the move would help spur economic development on the island.

Kid: How come all we do is import rice?

Farmer: Yes, well, if we didn’t we’d be dead (scarecrow reads “rice data hoax”)

A polemic has erupted over the importation of rice verses self-sufficiency with supporters of presidential challenger Prabowo Subianto using the issue to attack incumbent President Joko Widodo.

Tourist: Hopefully the weather will improve...

Masseur: And we’ll get ‘drop or two’ from the outcome... (Shorts read: Investor)

From an op-ed piece titled Celebrating lies