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.