Jakarta – The ramifications of a recent assault involving a Jakarta university student have extended far beyond what anyone could have expected, with the case eliciting public calls to boycott this year's income taxes because the suspect was the wealth-flexing son of a high-level tax officer.

Woman holding knife: Food estate, what's the news?

Container reads 'Food imports', words on sack read 'Food intensification, diversification, extensification.

[From an oped piece in Kompas.com by Sandro Gatra titled "The Politics of Love Bombing".]

So far, words do indeed continue to have their own place in the public's attention. By using words, politicians can communicate their political ideas and concepts. But when it's excessive, it is not good.

Election official: How's it going? All cleaned up? Ready to go? (trolley reads "Rotten Cadre")

Widodo: Legal certainty for investors (Paper glider reads Jobs Law Perppu 2/2022)

Worker: How about for us Mr?