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.

A series of graft and sex scandals involving senior politicians – and their furious denials of wrongdoing in the face of irrefutable evidence – has again highlighted the culture of impurity and unaccountability prevalent among Indonesia’s elected officials.