Man: The only thing left is foreign fish (ikan – fish, asin – salty, asin(g) – foreign)

Yet another round of political squabbling has broken out within the government’s ruling coalition – this time over Golkar Party politician Nurdin Halid’s leadership of the beleaguered Football Association of Indonesia (PSSI) – which is being used as a political football by President Yudhoyono’s Democrat Party to weaken Golkar’s hold over the PSS

Kid: Yogya gudeg (a traditional Yogyakarta dish) is delicious Mr... how come you’re rummaging about in it again!

Man: They’re just creating new problems for themselves...

1st Man: Is it being intentionally forgotten or just ignored?

2nd Man: Or being allowed to happen instead?

Man: Give us an example of model behaviour Mr...

Politician: There’s that example of corruption, collusion and nepotism.

A sound mind in a corrupt body – a play on the famous Latin quotation mens sana in corpore sano (a sound mind in a healthy body).

T-shirt reads: Preparations for the 26th Southeast Asian Games

Leaves read: Bank Century scandal, corruption, new parliamentary building, human rights, XYZ mafia.

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

2nd Man: Perhaps they only just found out!

1st Man: What are you, a thug, a terrorist, a loan shark, or a cop?

2nd Man: A debt collector!

Man: A new and luxurious building, which we do indeed need to show that... our nation is rich... our people are affluent and prosperous!

Corruption, poverty, tax mafia, Century, Lapindo, judicial mafia, criminality, political intrigue, human rights, drugs, indecisive leadership, apathy, Yogyakarta polemic, comparative studies etc...

Kid: There’s no point setting your beard on fire (getting in a twist, a panic, furious) Mr, you’re the one who didn’t keep it trim and neat (to keep one’s own house in order)!

Cake tray reads: Coalition

Papers in bin read: Bank Century, tax mafia inquiry, reshuffle

1st Man: A senior official has resigned over an illegal donation...

2nd Man: So they’re serious about creating clean governance then?

1st Man: Not here, in Japan...

Headline: Japanese FM resigns.

Man: I wander what that pepesan tastes like?

Sign: Apartment of Lies (empty pepesan) – referring to food, mostly fish, cooked in banana leafs, pepesan kosong – “looks tasty but nothing inside”, a lie or bluff.

Kid: Buruk rupah, cermin dibelah – an Indonesian proverb meaning “Blaming the wrong reason. Looking for a scapegoat”.

1st Man: When will there be a more even spread, yeah?

2nd Man: Eh, its already even...

1st Man: Ah! What’s evenly spread?

2nd Man: Corruption!

Kid: This should serve as a warning to us... if you get too settled in you’ll forget how to stand up!

Kid: Firm action isn’t just in a decree is it Dad!

Headlines read: Joint Ministerial Decree 199/2008

1st Man: Action will be taken against perpetrators of violence, they will be disbanded if necessary

2nd Man: Oh yeah, really?

1st Man: Well in speeches...