Fears that Indonesia is in the grip of a national ‘drugs emergency’ that is decimating the country’s youth were confirmed Monday after the National Narcotics Agency said it had busted an online operation selling marijuana brownies and arrested three people, one of whom attempted to justify the crime – for which they could receive the death penal

It’s not a sea, just a pond of milk, a hook and net is enough to sustain you (from the song Pond of Milk by Koes Plus)

Kid: Is there any ‘Dilkin’ (Justice for the poor) Dad?

Man: What there is... is ‘Misnurani’... a poverty of conscience!

Gaskin/Raskin – Subsidised LPG and rice for the poor. Newspaper headlines: Grandmother Asyani, Police vs KPK, Political uproar, Fat bank accounts, Robbers.

Kid: If you want to fix the law you’ve got to be bold and tough right Dad?

Signs: ‘Politicisation, criminalisation, pretrial motions, remission for corruptors’, ‘Law enforcement’

Singapore’s first Prime Minister Lee Kuan Yew, who once described Indonesian dictator President Suharto as ‘a man of the world’ and said during a visit to Jakarta in 2006 shortly before Suharto’s death that he was ‘an old friend of mine and remains a friend until now’, has died age 91 after a long illness.

Amid public ire over a government plan to relax a 2012 remission policy for corruption convicts to allow them more sentence reductions, the arrest and trial of 70-year-old grandmother Asyani for allegedly stealing teakwood belonging to state forestry company PT Perhutani, who was eventually released Monday after a massive public outcry, is yet a

Kid: Take it easy Dad! Forget about pretrial motions, corruption and bribery... what’s important is that we can still eat... the leftovers!

Jakarta has earned the dubious honor of being named the city with the worst traffic congestion in the world according to a new study by the British motor-oil company Castrol.

Kid: A pretrial hearing move right Dad? (belt reads ‘suspect’)

Book reads: Pretrial Hearing