Poker machine reads: Election of Regional heads

Man: Jackpot democracy...

Ezra Sihite/Rizky Amelia/Ulin Yusron – It’s not just Ahok that has been brought into the central leadership board, but scores of retired generals have also joined the ranks of the Greater Indonesia Movement Party (Gerindra Party) elite. In addition to this, there are family members and activists.

Agrarian rights activists say that the government’s policy of trade liberalisation and implementing an almost zero-tariff policy has led to a flood of imported food into the country and is impoverishing more than 44 million farmers who depend upon the land for their survival.

The “Lapindo(s) Beauty Spa” as it is jokingly called, referring to the massive Lapindo mud flow disaster in East Java blamed on drilling by a company linked to Golkar Party chairperson and business tycoon Aburizal Bakrie (right), continues to dog his 2014 presidential ambitions with two victims receiving widespread media coverage as they near th

1st Man: Conflicts in the regions continue to smolder Mr...

2nd Man: Is he even listening?

Yogyakarta – Scores of activists from the Yogyakarta Women’s Network (JPY) in the Central Java city of Yogyakarta demonstrated at the regional police headquarters on Tuesday July 3.

A public donation campaign ‘Coins for the KPK’ has been launched after the House of Representatives (bottom) – which again topped a list of corrupt institutions according to a survey earlier this month – refused to release Rp225 billion allocated from the state budget for the desperately needed construction of a new Corruption Eradication Commis

Kid looking at election campaign posters: It’s a pretty lively contest yeah...

Man: That’s the way it is with business...

Man: Which one’s in reverse... and which one’s in forward... (baggage reads ‘political hostages’)

As the political parties prepare to do battle in the 2014 general and presidential elections, anti-corruption activists warn that politically related graft cases over the next two years will increase sharply since most campaign funds are raised from illegal sources – corruption, corporate blackmail, milking state-owned companies and money from g