Singapore’s first Prime Minister Lee Kuan Yew, who once described Indonesian dictator President Suharto as ‘a man of the world’ and said during a visit to Jakarta in 2006 shortly before Suharto’s death that he was ‘an old friend of mine and remains a friend until now’, has died age 91 after a long illness.

Amid public ire over a government plan to relax a 2012 remission policy for corruption convicts to allow them more sentence reductions, the arrest and trial of 70-year-old grandmother Asyani for allegedly stealing teakwood belonging to state forestry company PT Perhutani, who was eventually released Monday after a massive public outcry, is yet a

Kid: Take it easy Dad! Forget about pretrial motions, corruption and bribery... what’s important is that we can still eat... the leftovers!

Jakarta has earned the dubious honor of being named the city with the worst traffic congestion in the world according to a new study by the British motor-oil company Castrol.

Kid: A pretrial hearing move right Dad? (belt reads ‘suspect’)

Book reads: Pretrial Hearing

Shackles read ‘pressure’, ‘interests’ (political)

With the government seemingly preoccupied dealing with the fallout from the legal fiasco surrounding the national police’s ongoing witch hunt against the Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK), which is now targeting not just KPK commissioners, but KPK investigators, the progressive media and pretty much anyone making public statements critical

Crocodile: National Police, Gecko: Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK), Rhinoceros: Thick skinned politicians, Rat: Corruptors, Civet Cat (wearing chicken feathers): Wolf in sheep’s clothing, Komodo Dragon: AGO, Snake (in the grass)

Kid: Watch out for that apple Mr, sometimes you can catch listeria (apple reads ‘political parties’)

Public confidence in law enforcement took another dive this week after it was revealed that Labora Sitorus – a low ranking Papuan cop with US$119 million in bank accounts and sentenced to 15 years for illegal logging and hoarding fuel – had left the Sorong jail for medical treatment in March 2014 and not returned.

Many believe the police’s attempts to criminalise the Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) after it named President Widodo’s nominee for national police chief Comr. Gen. Budi Gunawan a graft suspect, is in response to the KPK stepping up its probe into the Bank Indonesia liquidity support (BLBI) corruption scandal.

Man: There’s a political process, there’s a legal process... how come the result is... really, what will the world say Mr?

Goat: You can be sure that it won’t be me that gets skewered and grilled!

Man: And you can sure it’ll be us that suffer

Man: Okay (headline reads 6% Economic Growth)

Government official: That’s okay too (headline reads Corruption Index of 34)

Kid: These politicians are statesmen too right Dad? (headline reads Rival National Congress, Rival Chairperson)

Politician: Yes... but no... politicians think about seats, statesmen think about the people! (chair reads ‘Basic Commodities Party’)

Man: They make a big fuss when there’s a disaster, after that they forget about it

From an op-ed piece titled Democracy in tatters at parliament.

Kid: Political brawling... political dynamics... or oplosan Dad? (drum reads ‘Politics is the commander’)

International Anti-Corruption Day was marked across the country Tuesday, with many calling for harsher sentences and the seizure of graft convict’s assets.