Wijaya Kusuma, Yogyakarta – Investigators from the municipal police Special Crimes Detective Unit (Dit Reskrimsus) in the Central Java city of Yogyakarta have seized two luxury cars from the Yogyakarta-Central Java chairperson of the Islamic Defenders Front, Bambang Tedy.
Corruption & Abuse of Power
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September 2014
Man: Later this kind of thing won’t happen anymore like now, right Mr?
March 2014
Man (speaking to KPK chief Abraham Samad): There’s an unpleasant odor of social aid funds isn’t there Mr?
Kid: Rushing it aren’t we?
Man (Speaking to KPK chief Abraham Samad): Mr, do you think perhaps that future former officials are afraid of being made to wear KPK vests!
February 2014
Man: Bored yet Mr! Forget about it until there’s a change of administration then dig it up again like usual!
Kid: A political Pandora’s box
November 2013
Man speaking to KPK chief Abraham Samad and Supreme Audit Agency head Hadi Poernomo: What’s important is where the money went Mr!
Kid: The money’s found its way far and wide... and in the end...
October 2013
Man: A fantasy umbrella waving in the morning sun, hey, hey who is she...
Kid: May I see your radiant face... hey, hey Bunda Putri... (from the song Payung Fantasi by Ismail Marzuk)
September 2013
Kid: It looks like the mad cow disease is spreading Dad?
Man: It’s not mad cow disease, they’re cow-crazy (to become crazy about making money from cows)!
June 2013
From an oped piece titled The Social Exhibitionism of Politikus (Politikus – literally ‘political rat’, a derogatory term for politicians)
April 2013
Writing on donkey reads: “Legislative candidate”, corrupt politicians, fugitives from justice, hoodlums, insane, falsified deplomas...
Scroll reads: corruption, bribes, overseas junkets, project brokers, skipping meetings, huge salary++, a Hummer car...
Kid: A bet Dad... history will repeat itself.