1st Man: How come they’re taking so long to deal with it?

2nd Man: Perhaps they only just found out!

The hijacking of the Indonesian-flagged cargo ship Sinar Kudus has again highlighted the government’s indecisiveness and agonisingly slow decision making process. Preoccupied with political squabbles over the ruling-coalition, electoral threshold and sex scandals, it took three cabinet meetings almost a week to decide what course of action to pursue.