Kid: This scandal, that scandal, there’s no end to it... so what’s the broad national development program Sir?

Politician (chair reads “Republic of Clowns”): Build as maaaaany prisons as possible.

Farmers: Sir, our rice harvest has failed and we’re threatened with starvation...

Politician: My position is also under threat, don’t you know!

Sign: Sumba, NTT. Envelope: Corruption suspect

Anti-graft activists say that the root cause of most poverty, hunger and suffering in East Nusa Tenggara is rampant corruption.

Words on tree: KKN – Collusion, corruption and nepotism

1st Man: It’s really flourishing.

2nd Man: What is?

Smart people (don’t) pay tax
Smart people (corrupt) tax
Smart people (collude to avoid) tax
Smart people (do shady deals) tax
Smart people (embezzle) tax...

Kid: So only stupid people pay tax, right Dad? What says the world!

Kid: Why are they running around naked and exposing each other! That’s porno right Dad? What must the world be saying?

Hello hello Bandung, city of memories, long has it been since I last visited you, now you have become a sea of flood, brothers let us replant.

(Adapted from the 1945 revolutionary song Hello Hello Bandung by Ismail Marzuki)

Susno Duadji: Fitting aren’t I?

1st Man: Soccer hooligan mania, corruption mania, mafia mania, case broker mania, it’s all just the same...

2nd Man: The same, how so?

1st Man: They’re all wreaking the country.

Kid: After the reality shows on TV, the gang fights, the Century uproar, then terrorism, what’s next dad?

Man: Why do you care so much? What’s important is scratching out a living! Get it?

Man pushing shopping trolley (reading Modern Markets): You sell I buy.

Traditional kiosk and market traders say that the government has been inconsistent with Presidential Decree No 112/2007 on the protection of traditional markets with the rapid and uncontrolled growth of modern markets in urban centers driving them out of business.