Barely a month after the public furor over his appearance at a press conference with Republican presidential hopeful Donald Trump in which he was spotted wearing a US$14,000 Swiss watch, House of Representatives (DPR) deputy speaker and Golkar politician Setya Novanto is once again having to defend himself after pictures of an XJL Jaguar (which

Kid: Dad can I have more travel allowance money?

Man: Why don’t you just ask Mr Donald Trump...

Kid: So many trillions of rupiah to construct a building... for the sake of the people or for the sake of... projects Mr?

Man: For the sake of the people fool! I’m also the people.

After failing to obtain state funding for the down payment on their private cars, members of the House of Representatives are pushing the government to include 20 billion rupiah (US$1.5 million) in ‘aspiration funds’ in next year’s state budget – essentially a pork-barrel fund that will be distributed among all 560 representatives and used for a

From an op-ed piece titled Democracy in tatters at parliament.

Man: Consensus?

Man: Success! Comedy drama round one

Kid: You mean they’ll be a second round Dad?

Lawmaker: Who says we’re getting paid for doing nothing! I’m working don’t you know!

Package, package, package... Bag reads paket sembako (basic goods package)

Lawmakers, whose terms will end in October, are making sure that the whopping US$26 million budgeted by the House in 2013 for overseas junkets doesn’t go to waste, with three groups of lawmakers visiting New Zealand in April and May to conduct so-called ‘comparative studies’ to gather information related to legislation (one group will visit the