Mahfiroh, Jakarta – Women’s activists including the Women’s Legal Aid Foundation (LBH APIK) and the Free Women National Network (JRPM) are supporting television host Luna Maya as a victims of the distribution of a private video containing sex scenes.
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February 2011
Jakarta – The government should be more serious about controlling the rising rate of inflation. If the situation continues, people’s purchasing power, especially fixed-income labor groups, will continue to decline and impact on national consumption levels.
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
Sleman – The first year and 100 days of the second term of the administration of President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono (SBY) and Vice President Boediono was marked by a student protest in the Sleman regency of Yogyakarta Special Province on Friday January 28.
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.
Yogyakarta – Scores of demonstrators from the Student Struggle Center for National Liberation (Pembebasan) held an action in front of the Gajah Mada University traffic circle on Friday January 28 demanding that the government of President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono (SBY) and Vice President Boediono resign because they have become loyal servants of
Politician: Who says I’m lying
Rouge tax official Gayus Tambunan (right): I’m not lying...
Headline reads: Critics, lying to the public
Jakarta – The US Central Intelligence Agency very much dominated the initial consolidation of the New Order regime of former President Suharto. US international relations historian from Princeton University, Bradley R Simpson, says that the succession of laws enacted by President Suharto was drafted with strong influence from the US.
Man: These days it’s not “many children, much fortune” (a famous Indonesian saying), but lots of corruption, lots of money.
Fitraya Ramadhanny, Jakarta – The United States government iused the social networking media in Indonesia, from blogs, Facebook to Twitter, to spread its influence. Additional funds requested by the US Embassy in Jakarta reached US$100,000 or 900 million rupiah.