Leaves read: Bank Century scandal, corruption, new parliamentary building, human rights, XYZ mafia.
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April 2011
1st Man: How come they’re taking so long to deal with it?
2nd Man: Perhaps they only just found out!
1st Man: What are you, a thug, a terrorist, a loan shark, or a cop?
2nd Man: A debt collector!
Man: A new and luxurious building, which we do indeed need to show that... our nation is rich... our people are affluent and prosperous!
March 2011
Corruption, poverty, tax mafia, Century, Lapindo, judicial mafia, criminality, political intrigue, human rights, drugs, indecisive leadership, apathy, Yogyakarta polemic, comparative studies etc...
Kid: There’s no point setting your beard on fire (getting in a twist, a panic, furious) Mr, you’re the one who didn’t keep it trim and neat (to keep one’s own house in order)!
Cake tray reads: Coalition
Papers in bin read: Bank Century, tax mafia inquiry, reshuffle
1st Man: A senior official has resigned over an illegal donation...
2nd Man: So they’re serious about creating clean governance then?
1st Man: Not here, in Japan...
Headline: Japanese FM resigns.
Man: I wander what that pepesan tastes like?
Sign: Apartment of Lies (empty pepesan) – referring to food, mostly fish, cooked in banana leafs, pepesan kosong – “looks tasty but nothing inside”, a lie or bluff.
February 2011
Kid: Buruk rupah, cermin dibelah – an Indonesian proverb meaning “Blaming the wrong reason. Looking for a scapegoat”.




