♦ 1 year ago: How’s the preparations for the SEA Games going? Everything’s in order Sir...
♦ 5 months ago: How’s it going with the Games? Safe n’ sound sir...
♦ 1 month ago: How about the SEA Games? Everything’s cool sir...
♦ Today: WHAT’S THE HELL’S GOING WITH THE SEA GAMES? Ahh, gimme a moment sir...

As President Yudhoyono (holding woman with ‘political parties’ written on dress) begins short-listing the names of new ministers for his first cabinet reshuffle during his second term in office, political analysts warn that it is critical for the president to resist the political pressure or horse-trading that characterised his first cabinet lin

Man: As I once said: they’re what you’d call a kindergarten, some like to be bribed, some like to quarrel, others like to get angry!

Unity in Diversity – enshrined in Indonesia’s coat-of-arms

I’m a thief cos he’s a thief too...

Newspaper headline reads: Banggar, cabinet reshuffle.

1st Man: How come nothing’s being done?

2nd Man: It’s just like everything else in the country yeah...

Exhaust reads: Holdups, rapes, pickpockets, illegal road fees, traffic violations...

Man: Cleptocractic republic? No way! I stand at the forefront of eradicating corruption! There will be no favoritism (lit no matter what ‘feathers’ you have’)! There will be no remissions for corruptors!

Kid: It depends Mr! On what feathers... and whose feathers!

Woman: Watch out Mr! Don’t get sleepy!

Man: Isn’t it the same everywhere if you sit in “chairs” with air-conditioning, you always get sleepy, right Mrs...

President Yudhoyono has received a new blow amid his own declining popularity, with the results of an Indonesian Survey Circle (LSI) survey showing a sharp drop in public approval of his cabinet, dropping from 52.3% in January 2010, and then 46.5% in September 2010, to 37.7% this month.

Man (holding forged document): You’re the chicken thief!

Until next time image building...

Sign reads: For the 633 victims of Mudik (holiday road accidents).

Kid: Please forgive my physical and emotional wrongdoings (a traditional Idul Fitri greeting) and for all my crimes of corruption...

Man: The same to you...

Man: Respected corruptors, judicial mafia, tax mafia, project mafia, budget mafia, election mafia, political (rat) mafia, Lying House of Representatives, bribery mafia, mafia XYZ... Let us welcome this great day and hope that our pious deeds will be accepted by God the Most Holy!

1st Man: Didn’t he say he would be at the forefront of eradicating corruption?

2nd Man: He’s already sent a letter right...

Man: He’s been arrested? Cool... then I’m safe!

Kid: How come?

Man: Psst... previous whistle-blowers have also ended up having their whistle silenced.

Man: Nazruddin’s been arrested, so why are so many people are getting nervous?

Man: A person can also be judged by what they say!

Loudspeaker: Disband the KPK... Forgive corruptors...

1st Man: It’s like they’re not serious about eradicating corruption anymore?

2nd Man: Did you really think they were serious before?

From an op-ed piece in the Jakarta daily Kompas titled “Image Building only Creates Deeper Disenchantment”.

1st Man: Prices keep going up...

2nd Man: Prices shall go down

1st Man: What, just like that? Prices will go down?

2nd Man: I said so in a speech didn’t I?