1st Man: Free schooling for all...

2nd Man: Free? Isn’t it getting more expensive?

1st Man: What’s free is the children, the parents still have to pay.

Waiter: Barbequed swine flu a la terrorism...

1st Man: It’s time for us to unite to fight against terrorism!

2nd Man: And not short-lived enthusiasm.

Kid: Dad! There been another mud outflow in Sidoarjo.

Man: Yeah I’m thinking bout it (Quick count, recapitulation, election commission, electoral roll)

1st Man: Don’t play with coins, remember you could get punished!

2nd Man: It might be a good idea for the law to learn from the coin.

Man speaking to President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono (with quick count election results in pocket) and Boediono: Congratulations! We have big hopes in you. Hopefully we won’t have to live in rubbish and breath mud anymore, and their won’t be any more Siti Hajar’s (an abused migrant worker) being humiliated by other countries...

1st Man: Yes! Finally an ID can be used to vote. Now we won’t loose our right to vote again...

2nd Man: But an ID’s expensive...

Man: Soy sauce doesn’t taste good? Where you going to get soy sauce with pure first rate soy beans these days... there all mixed with (kanji) starch... Eh, (janji) promises!

Clockwise from top: (Vice presidential candidates) Prabowo Subianto, Boediono, Wiranto, (presidential candidates) Jusuf Kalla, Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono, Megawati Sukarnoputri.

Buskers: Forget, forget, forget, don’t forget your promises. Remember, remember, remember, don’t just think about seats.

From left: Yudhoyono, Megawati Sukarnoputri, Jusuf Kalla.

Kid: It’s a festival of democracy, right dad? So how come they smile at each other on TV but criticise each other behind their backs?

Father: It’s a masquerade party, don’t you know!