Despite the rainy season having begun in November, global warming exacerbated by the El Nino weather phenomenon has resulted in rain still not falling on parts of eastern Indonesia with farmers reporting widespread harvest failures.

Man: I am indeed thinking about it.

Kid: Think about me too Dad.

Box reads 'Regional Budget'

Kompas - January 20, 2016

Dentist: We have to do routine checks on your dental health Mr... so you're not prone to losing all your teeth!

President Joko Widodo's 'grand' plan to boost economic growth by attracting investment for infrastructure, which despite a significant increase in state spending is still very much dependent on partnerships with the private sector, has inevitably resulted in investments largely flowing into profitable projects such as electricity generating capa

1st Man: Building this is important...

2nd Man: More important again is looking after it.

Man: Merry Christmas. Bhinneka Tunggal Ika: The national motto, Unity in Diversity

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

Ball reads ‘decision’, flag reads ‘politics’

Kid: Your Honor!... Aren’t closed sessions usually for hearings into pornography?

Man: It’s like they use the state as a game... (arm reads Gangster Elite)

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

Word on right reads ‘Now’, bag reads ‘Social Aid’ funds (widely abused by politicians to line their own pockets)

Man (speaking to kid imagining independence fighter the late Bung Tomo): State defence isn’t just about taking up arms but also about science, art, sport and respecting the law and human rights, acting honestly, anti-corruption and anti-bribes...

A series of economic policy (kebijakan ekonomi) initiatives launched by the administration of President Joko Widodo (left) and Vice-President Jusuf Kalla (right) aimed at boosting economic growth, none of which address the fundamental problems plaguing the country such as corruption, dependency on raw material exports, foreign domination of the

Man: How come they’re all singing a different tune? (Song sheet reads ‘Work’)

Kid: Money has become the ideology right Dad!

Despite repeated pledges by the government that it will put an end to the massive forest fires sweeping across Riau, Kalimantan and Sumatra, which have been widely blamed on big and usually politically connected wood pulp and palm oil companies clearing land ahead of the planting season, the choking haze blanketing a large swathe of South-East A

Disgraced tax official Gayus Tambunan, serving a 30-year sentence for bribery, money-laundering and passport forgery, made waves yet again this week when a photo circulated online purporting to show him dining at a restaurant with two unidentified women in Jakarta.

Kid: Dad can I have more travel allowance money?

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