Rofiqi Hasan, Denpasar – Scores of workers and non-government organisation (NGO) activists commemorated May Day with a protest action at the Badjra Sandhi Monument in the Balinese provincial capital of Denpasar on Saturday May 1.

High school graduate: I passed honestly...

Man: So later if you become a government official you’ll still be like that right?

Sleeve reads: Vested interests. Cap reads: Public Order Agency.

Man: In this case right, the common people are being played off against each other.

Kid: What says the world?

After the darkness let the light appear... but it’s getting dark again Sister...

Document: Child rape, domestic violence, migrant worker sexual abuse...

Kid: This scandal, that scandal, there’s no end to it... so what’s the broad national development program Sir?

Politician (chair reads “Republic of Clowns”): Build as maaaaany prisons as possible.

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?

Jakarta – On Monday April 5 the victims and families of victims of the abduction and forced disappearance of activists in 1997-1998, Semanggi I and II and Trisakti filed a suit with the Jakarta State Administrative Court (PTUN) against the President of the Republic of Indonesia over the president’s decision to promote Sjafrie Sjamsoeddin as depu

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)

Susno Duadji: Fitting aren’t I?

Support for the International Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Trans and Intersex Association (ILGA) congress that was planned to be held in the East Java provincial capital of Surabaya continues to flow in, although there are many that oppose it.

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.

It’s Thursday afternoon, March 18, and dozens of family members of victims of human rights violations are holding another “Kamisan” (Thursday Action), a silent protest in which they hold black umbrellas with the names of human rights cases written on them.

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?

Jakarta – The Commission for Missing Persons and Victims of Violence (Kontras) is calling on the United States not to cooperate with or provide military assistance to the Indonesian government. Military cooperation would only be acceptable if the Indonesian government seriously deals with and resolves cases of human rights violations.

Jakarta – Around 35 representatives of students and civil society groups from Papua demonstrated on Wednesday March 17 in front of the United States Embassy and the State Palace in Central Jakarta.

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.