Heaven’s gate

Man: 70 year retirement age, what’s wrong with that?! I’m not taking advantage of it... but at 70 year’s of age, we’re loved by the angels and God!... Don’t you know! (Sign on chair: Supreme Court)

Kid: So, you’re getting close to heaven’s gate right Mr!

Experts have warned that extending the retirement age of justices will obstruct reform of the judicial system, dubbed the most corrupt in Asia.

Kompas – September 27, 2008

Remember me okay

Legislators: Supreme Court justice retirement age becomes 70 years... Agreeeeed!

Legislators: Remember me okay... (right 67-year-old Supreme Court chief justice Bagir Manan).

A parliamentary working committee is rushing to pass an amendment to the Supreme Court law later this month, with bribery allegations dogging the legislators involved in the deliberations.

Kompas – September 24, 2008

Queuing for alms...

Top: Queuing for alms...

Bottom: Queuing for bribes!

21 women were killed on September 17 in a stampede during the distribution of alms to a crowd in Pasuruan. Scores of former and current lawmakers meanwhile have been linked with a massive bribery scandal involving the deliberation of a bill on the central bank.

Kompas – September 20, 2008

Pasuruan Tragedy

Writing on wreath of flowers: Pasuruan Tragedy.

Basket on right: 20,000 rupiah note.

While Rp 20,000 (US$2.3) or even Rp 30,000 might be considered an insignificant sum, it is for that amount that 21 women – many of them elderly and widowed – died while rushing to receive a cash handout from a philanthropist in Pasuruan on Monday. (Jakarta Post, September 17, 2008)

Kompas – September 17, 2008

Lapindo

Kid: Lucky we don’t have to bother about visiting our home village at the end of the fasting month, right Dad!

Sign in mud: Lapindo – referring to the Lapindo mud disaster in East Java that has now inundated 700 hectares and displaced some 36,000 people.

Kompas – September 13, 2008

Superior Seed

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The Supertoy HL2 rice hoax linked to the presidential office has revealed nepotism and cronyism among President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono's inner circle.

Kompas – September 10, 2008

Global capitalism

Arm band reads: Global capitalism.

Kompas – September 3, 2008