Authentic soya sauce

Man: Authentic soya sauce yeah Mr? (bottle reads 'The No 1 Authentic Soya Sauce', badge reads 'Presidential Candidate')

Kid: But soybeans are scarce and expensive!

Popular food staples tempeh and tofu have virtually disappeared from traditional markets due to soybean shortages and souring prices caused by price fixing and hoarding by food import cartels. There seems to be no scarcely however of presidential hopefuls all branding themselves as the most authentic and tasty candidate on the market.

Kompas - August 31, 2013

Panjat Pinang

Prizes read (clockwise): 2014 elections, high prices, security forces shootings, weakening rupiah, riots, oil and gas corruption.

Panjat Pinang, a traditional celebration of Indonesia's Independence Day on August 17 that dates back to Dutch colonial days, involves contestants being challenged to scale slippery betel nut tree trunk placed vertically in the ground with a wheel full of prizes at the top.

Kompas - August 21, 2013

So now please forgive

Politician: Last year's Lebaran is over. So now please forgive my physical and emotional wrongdoings (a traditional Idul Fitri greeting) once again...

While the political elite like make a big show of observing the rituals of the Idul Fitri celebrations at the end-of-Ramadan holiday period, it is little more than an exercise in polishing their public image as they prepare to get on with what they do best – robbing the country blind.

Kompas - August 7, 2013