Kid: DePeDe... what’s that Dad?

Man: I don’t know!

Chairs read MA(FIA), a play on the initials MA (Supreme Court), and DPD but with the wording changed to read ‘Council of Performing Clowns’.

From an op-ed piece titled The Future of the DPD on an intensifying power struggle within the Regional Representatives Council (DPD) over the leadership of the institution.

Kid: Endless comparative studies... when will they smarten up Dad? (document reads Draft Election Law)

Kid: Papa wants a seat

Kid: Wait! The next episode of the political comedy drama!

Ball reads ‘decision’, flag reads ‘politics’

Barely a month after the public furor over his appearance at a press conference with Republican presidential hopeful Donald Trump in which he was spotted wearing a US$14,000 Swiss watch, House of Representatives (DPR) deputy speaker and Golkar politician Setya Novanto is once again having to defend himself after pictures of an XJL Jaguar (which

Kid: Dad can I have more travel allowance money?

Man: Why don’t you just ask Mr Donald Trump...

Kid: So many trillions of rupiah to construct a building... for the sake of the people or for the sake of... projects Mr?

Man: For the sake of the people fool! I’m also the people.

After failing to obtain state funding for the down payment on their private cars, members of the House of Representatives are pushing the government to include 20 billion rupiah (US$1.5 million) in ‘aspiration funds’ in next year’s state budget – essentially a pork-barrel fund that will be distributed among all 560 representatives and used for a