Kid: This should serve as a warning to us... if you get too settled in you’ll forget how to stand up!
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February 2011
Kid: Firm action isn’t just in a decree is it Dad!
Headlines read: Joint Ministerial Decree 199/2008
1st Man: Action will be taken against perpetrators of violence, they will be disbanded if necessary
2nd Man: Oh yeah, really?
1st Man: Well in speeches...
Indonesia’s much touted image of pluralism and religious tolerance – enshrined in the country’s coat-of-arms by the words Bhinneka Tunggal Ika (Unity in Diversity) – has been left in tatters following Sunday’s fatal attack on an Ahmadiyah congregation in Cikeusik, Banten, the latest in a series vicious assaults on members of the Ahmadiy
Man: They say to be involved in politics you have to be like a rat, sniff things out first, then bite!
Kid: That’s right dad! It’s also what’s called a political rat! – a play on the word politikus: politik (politics) + tikus (rat) = politician.
1st Man: Be patient, I’m sure the extreme weather will soon pass...
2nd Man: What about extreme corruption and the judicial mafia, when will they pass?
January 2011
Man: We don’t get wage rises so we don’t feel the lack... nature provides an overflow of garbage!
Headline reads: Regional heads, 28 out of 33 provinces involved in corruption.
Politician: Who says I’m lying
Rouge tax official Gayus Tambunan (right): I’m not lying...
Headline reads: Critics, lying to the public
Man: These days it’s not “many children, much fortune” (a famous Indonesian saying), but lots of corruption, lots of money.
Governor: For the sake of a clean governance, cases of corruption, collusion and nepotism (KKN) must be fully investigated!
Man: But what if you’re the one committing the KKN Mr?