Farmers: Sir, our rice harvest has failed and we’re threatened with starvation...
Politician: My position is also under threat, don’t you know!
Sign: Sumba, NTT. Envelope: Corruption suspect
Anti-graft activists say that the root cause of most poverty, hunger and suffering in East Nusa Tenggara is rampant corruption.
Words on tree: KKN – Collusion, corruption and nepotism
1st Man: It’s really flourishing.
2nd Man: What is?
Smart people (don’t) pay tax
Smart people (corrupt) tax
Smart people (collude to avoid) tax
Smart people (do shady deals) tax
Smart people (embezzle) tax...
Kid: So only stupid people pay tax, right Dad? What says the world!
Kid: Why are they running around naked and exposing each other! That’s porno right Dad? What must the world be saying?
Hello hello Bandung, city of memories, long has it been since I last visited you, now you have become a sea of flood, brothers let us replant.
(Adapted from the 1945 revolutionary song Hello Hello Bandung by Ismail Marzuki)
1st Man: Soccer hooligan mania, corruption mania, mafia mania, case broker mania, it’s all just the same...
2nd Man: The same, how so?
1st Man: They’re all wreaking the country.
Kid: After the reality shows on TV, the gang fights, the Century uproar, then terrorism, what’s next dad?
Man: Why do you care so much? What’s important is scratching out a living! Get it?
Man pushing shopping trolley (reading Modern Markets): You sell I buy.
Traditional kiosk and market traders say that the government has been inconsistent with Presidential Decree No 112/2007 on the protection of traditional markets with the rapid and uncontrolled growth of modern markets in urban centers driving them out of business.
Background: House of Representatives building.
Kid: Hey Mr... if you want to horse trade, why not just go to the livestock market?
After years of relative peace, analysts and ordinary Indonesian’s alike were shocked by the discovery of a paramilitary training camp in the mountainous regions of Aceh Besar allegedly linked to Jemaah Islamiyah.
Kid: Dad... 6.7 trillion, how many zeros has that go in it?
Critics have responded to recent remarks by legislators who have labeled student protests against them as “brainless” by saying that they should be ashamed of their poor attendance record and performance and that it’s a “no-brainer” to expect to pass proper legislation if you’re not there to deliberate it.
Kid: Forgetting, forgetting the people again... thinking, just thinking about positions... (Adapted from the hit song Forget Forget Remember by the Grave Band)
A recent case in which a hospital was accused of denying a family the right to take home and bury the body of their deceased newborn baby because the parents could not meet their medical bill has highlighted the fact that hospitals are still discriminating against poor families who are entitled to free medical treatment.
Suits: Co-ali-tion. Sign: Vested interests
Man: Who said a coalition for the truth?!
Kid: And not for us right Dad?
1st Man: You lookin’ for something?
2nd Man: His conscience.
Sign: Dirt cheap political restaurant
Waiter (SBY): The special today luxury cars fried in butter, oyster sauce wage rise... or a peppered reshuffle... drinks include a joyous soda or... very bitter black tea!
Typewriter: Press Freedom?
Man: Relax, I’ve already got some coins ready...
Journalist organisations say that press freedom in Indonesia is under serious threat with the increasing use of lawsuits and the criminalisation of the press to coerce and silence the media.
Kid: Wage rises and luxury cars for government officials... it’s just the same as salting the sea Mr. (a waste of time)
Man: Politics is expensive don’t you know!
