From left to right: Djoko Susilo, Muhammad Nazaruddin, Wa Ode Nurhayati, Andi Mallarangeng, Achmad Yamanie, Anas Urbaningrum, Angelina Sondakh.

Drum reads: Politicisation and commercialisation of the law.

Man: Relax, we’re used to surviving without leadership

Drum reads: Political racket

Man: Arrogance and personal ambition.

Man: Horeee... Indonesia’s the champion (Cup reads International Anti Corruption Day)

Sign reads: Prosperity

In what is becoming a depressingly regular event with the onset of the rainy season each year, torrential rains over the weekend triggered widespread flooding and traffic gridlock throughout much of Jakarta, including the central business district with its iconic Welcome Monument, which is not among the city’s 78 flood-prone areas.

Bags read: Engineering comparative study, Red Cross comparative study, XYZ study.

Kid: There’s collusion here isn’t there Dad?

Lawmakers: Bye... (document in bag reads Comparative Study)

1st Student: Independence is a golden bridge, you know...

2nd Student: So where’s the bridge?

Writing on dragon reads: Corruption, human rights, judicial mafia, terrorism, racial, religious and ethnic conflict, XYZ.

Man (speaking to President Yudhoyono): Try using the keris of Mpu Gandring Mr!

Fauzi: Former [graft] convicts are prohibited from being government officials.

Signs reads Dignity, Corruption, (Malaysian) Ringgit. Bumper reads National Unity Cabinet Volume 2.

Migrant worker: There’s no need to talk about dignity Mr! We just want to be free from poverty!

Bubble reads Legal Protection, cash box reads Foreign Exchange

Board reads: Indo-clown-ia Cuisine

Kid (speaking to President Yudhoyono): The most appetizing is the terror omelette and crusty terror... and to drink the honey and ginger terror milk, seriously Mr!

In addition to the myriad of social and economic problems that plague the capital, newly elected Jakarta governor and deputy governor Joko ‘Jokowi’ Widodo (right) and Basuki “Ahok” Tjahaja Purnama (left) also face what some observers have called the ‘triad of dark forces’ – business interests that have enjoyed decades of rampant unregulated deve

President Yudhoyono: It’s like this! But it’s also like that!

Kid: For the salvation of what. And for the sake of who Mr?

Man standing behind KPK chief Abraham Samad: Just when there’s so much work. Writing on shadowy figure reads ‘Intimidation, threats’.

1st Legislator: Revise the KPK law! 2nd Legislator: No way!

Man (talking to KPK chief Abraham Samad): They proposed it themselves now they’re rejecting it, it’s just to build their party’s anti-corruption image right Mr?

Kid: The Republic of Indonesia-Clowns

Man: Yes! He’s won! Kid: A people’s coalition?

Politician: Not necessarily! (monitor reads ‘political machine’ count)