Politician: Who says I’m lying
Rouge tax official Gayus Tambunan (right): I’m not lying...
Headline reads: Critics, lying to the public
Politician: Who says I’m lying
Rouge tax official Gayus Tambunan (right): I’m not lying...
Headline reads: Critics, lying to the public
Corruption-collusion-nepotism, law enforcement, migrant workers beheaded, marginal...
Man: We’re not just going into the same room again are we?
1st Man: We’ve been waiting a year already... how much longer?
2nd Man: There’s still four more years to go...
From an opinion piece in the Jakarta daily Kompas by Ikrar Nusa Bhakti on the first year of President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono’s second term in office titled Before the Catastrophe.
1st Man: Independence!
2nd Man: What’s up?
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.
1st Man: Wow, our state officials are getting even more amazing.
2nd Man: What? Their performance? Closeness to the people? Or their social sensitivity?
1st Man: No, their new official cars!
Man: Ahh, it’s only the first 100 days.
Kid: But that’s going to be the basis for the next five years Dad.
Vice President Jusuf Kalla: Dual positions? Totally legit...
Men: Got any openings Boss?
Folder reads: Job application.
Jakarta – As much as 60-70 percent of the 2007 state budget (APBN) or between 457-534 trillion rupiah was depleted for the bureaucratic costs of the government, legislator and law enforcement agencies. The total state budget for 2007 was 763 trillion rupiah.