Woman: Why did he ask that it be at Monas?

Man: Because he’s a senior official (pe-tinggi, lit someone high up)

Man: Yes... but when are you going to give me some thought Mr?

Former Miss Indonesia Angelina Sondakh, a legislator from President Yudhoyono’s ruling Democrat Party and suspect in a high-profile corruption scandal, angered millions who watched her recent court testimony in the trial of former party treasurer Muhammad Nazaruddin when she insisted she knew nothing about a BlackBerry messenger conversation wit

Hand: Get the job finished...

Arm band reads: Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK). Safe reads: Corruption cases.

Street signs read: Road with no end, Comedy St, Law & Justice St, Dead End St, Road to Hell, Malang Apple Rd, Washington Apple Rd, Politics St, Road to Heaven.

1st Man: One drop of indigo stains the whole cauldron of milk...

2nd Man: Or was the milk already damaged to begin with.

Yohan Wahyu – Most of the recent social upheavals have been triggered by a decline in public trust in the state. Public pessimism towards the government's performance has stimulated the emergence of several mass movements, from solidarity actions through to the social media and mass blockades.

Man: How dare they embezzle money so shamelessly!

Kid: Perhaps they’re high on drugs Dad! (alluding to a series of recent drug cases involving state officials)

Jakarta – The Civil Society Coalition for Workers’ Rights (KMSHB) has condemned Jakarta Military Commander Major General TNI Waris for being arrogant, anti-democratic and provocative.

1st Man: That’s the big boss, the chief and the big chief’s share

2nd Man: While our share’s a flood alert right (apel = alert or apple)

Arm band reads: Corruptor

The arrest of a juvenile who stole a pair of cheap sandals is only the latest in a series of cases where police have locked up children for petty crimes while rampant official corruption and theft of millions in public funds is often punished with just a slap on the wrist.

Man: Optimistic?

Flood waters read: Corruption, mafia, violence...

Kid: The year of lies!

Arm: Mastermind behind BI deputy governor bribery case

More than a few eyebrows were raised when relatively unknown legal activist and lawyer Abraham Samad (pictured left) emerged as the country’s new anti-graft czar on Friday.

Gavel reads: Justice, Corruption Courts

Man: Thief! Thief!

Responding to a damming new survey released this week showing that state corruption has worsened significantly under President Yudhoyono’s watch, with 91% of Indonesians now saying corruption is widespread throughout the government, Yudhoyono has called for an all-out war against what he termed “state robbers”.

Bars on cage with Bird of Paradise read: Injustice, corruption, poverty, violence, vested interests.

Jakarta – The Occupy Jakarta movement inspired by Occupy Wall Street in New York continues to reverberate with no end in sight in the midst of the controversy surrounding the cabinet reshuffle and rampant corruption in Indonesia.

Makassar – Hundreds of students from the Anti-DPR Budget Committee Front held a protest action underneath the Makassar flyover in the South Sulawesi provincial capital of Makassar on Thursday October 20 to commemorate the second year of the administration of President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono and Vice President Boediono.