I passed honestly...

High school graduate: I passed honestly...

Man: So later if you become a government official you'll still be like that right?

Rampant cheating in Indonesia's national high school final examinations, in which teachers sell the answers to students, provides them with an early training in corruption and throws the credibility of the exams themselves into doubt.

Kompas - April 28, 2010

Vested interests

Sleeve reads: Vested interests. Cap reads: Public Order Agency.

Man: In this case right, the common people are being played off against each other.

Kid: What says the world?

On April 14 Tanjung Priok turned into a war zone as local residents battled public order officials attempting to demolish a historic tomb of an 18th-century religious leader to make way for a port development project.

Kompas - April 21, 2010

After the darkness let the light appear...

After the darkness let the light appear... but it's getting dark again Sister...

Document: Child rape, domestic violence, migrant worker sexual abuse...

Commemorating Kartini Day, activists say that 131 years since the birth of the nationalist hero and feminist symbol, women are still striving for equality and the enactment of discriminatory sharia-based laws is undermining the gains women have made.

Kompas - April 21, 2010

Build as maaaaany prisons as possible

Kid: This scandal, that scandal, there's no end to it... so what's the broad national development program Sir?

Politician (chair reads “Republic of Clowns”): Build as maaaaany prisons as possible.

According to official figures, around 140,000 inmates are being detained in 413 prisons designed to house less than 90,000. Rather then building more prisons, critics say the authorities must stop jailing minors and people convicted of petty crimes.

Kompas - April 17, 2010

Our rice harvest has failed

Farmers: Sir, our rice harvest has failed and we're threatened with starvation...

Politician: My position is also under threat, don't you know!

Sign: Sumba, NTT. Envelope: Corruption suspect

Anti-graft activists say that the root cause of most poverty, hunger and suffering in East Nusa Tenggara is rampant corruption.

Kompas - April 14, 2010

It's really flourishing

Words on tree: KKN – Collusion, corruption and nepotism

1st Man: It's really flourishing.

2nd Man: What is?

Regional autonomy and the creation of new administrative regions – largely driven by the vested interest of local elites – has brought little benefit to the ordinary people and instead provided fertile ground for corruption to spread and flourish.

Kompas - April 7, 2010

Stupid people pay tax

Smart people (don't) pay tax
Smart people (corrupt) tax
Smart people (collude to avoid) tax
Smart people (do shady deals) tax
Smart people (embezzle) tax...

Kid: So only stupid people pay tax, right Dad? What says the world!

The arrest of Gayus Tambunan, a tax official with US$3.1 million in his bank accounts has come to symbolize how hard-working, tax-paying citizens are being cheated while the wealthy collude with corrupt officials to avoid tax.

Kompas - April 3, 2010

That's porno right Dad?

Kid: Why are they running around naked and exposing each other! That's porno right Dad? What must the world be saying?

There is a growing belief that law-enforcement agencies often bring charges against their own members or others to silence them and that the institutions are used by their leaders to pursue personal interests, avenge rivals or to protect their cronies, while paying little heed to upholding justice.

Kompas - April 1, 2010