Kid: …Becoming a leader is a heavy response-ability remember Mr! (placard reads Basic Commodities Party).
Man: Yeah… “Just responding to the call-ability! …
...Eh, ‘why be frightened!’ (a play on a famous quip by Abdurrahman ‘Gus Dur’ Wahid – ‘why let it trouble you’)
Politician: Eradicate corruption!
Man: But it’s not campaign time yet is it Mr?
Politician: ...What’s wrong with former officials making a party and nominating themselves?…
Badge: Omm Pasikom President 2009
Kid: …Money from the past to buy votes, think it’ll sell Mr?...
Man: How come school fees keep going up?
Politician: Ah, that’s the trend a at the moment, right, everything’s going up… (name tag reads candidate)
Politician: …I also want to be on top again… (name tag reads candidate)
Politician: ...Promises?... No way! Now’s not when promises are kept! Get it!!
Badge: Vote for me
M. Rizal Maslan, Jakarta – Government opposition figures gathered at the Century Park Hotel in the Senayan area of Central Jakarta on Saturday July 5 to discuss the problems of the nation, which may possibly become an arena of lobbying by the political elite in the lead up to the 2009 general elections.
Men: Long live elections for regional heads!! Long live democracy!!
Man: …Now we’re free to join any party we want including… the Golput Party!!
Golput – Meaning to abstain from voting or not marking the ballot paper.
Ballot box: Promises, promises, promises, promises, promises
Jumadi, Makassar – The elections for mayor and deputy mayor in the South Sulawesi provincial capital of Makassar is heating up. An activist from the South Sulawesi Indonesian Poor People’s Union (SRMI), Wahidah Baharuddin Upa, has declared that she will nominate himself to enliven the Makassar municipal electoral contest.
Sugihono, Jakarta – Apparently with the firm intention of supporting an action opposing the recent fuel price increases at the State Palace in Central Jakarta, Indonesian Democratic Party of Struggle (PDI-P) politician Permadi was instead turned away by protesters.
