Eventually I'll go crazy...

Patient: Eventually I'll go crazy...

Picture on bag: Legislative candidate 2009

Many legislative hopefuls are beginning to sniff the stench of failure and are responding with hostility and even mental problems. In anticipation, on April 8 the health minister ordered the nation's 32 mental hospitals to put their doctors on alert prior to the election results being made public.

Kompas – April 15, 2009

After the successful "general elections"

After the successful "general elections"...!

Kid: I await your promises... imagined night and day...

While few of Jakarta's thousands of street beggars expect a better life under the new crop of legislators elected on April 9, even if they had been bothered to vote, most would have been ineligible or too poor to obtain the necessary documentation to register.

Kompas – April 11, 2009

And for my future too

1st man: We want elections that are peaceful, honest and fair. For the sake of democracy...

2nd man: For all our futures...

Legislative Candidate (with pockets bulging with money): And for my future too.

Kompas – April 8, 2009

So were's your conscience Mr?

Man: Why be confused? Just vote according to your conscience... (badge reads legislative candidate)

Kid: So were's your conscience Mr?

Man: In... the... p... pawn shop

Anti-corruption activists warn that if elected, legislative candidates will use their positions not to serve the people, but to recoup the massive financial costs of their election campaigns.

Kompas – April 4, 2009

Aren’t you going wait till it bursts first?

1st man: From here we can learn about other dams...

2nd man: Aren’t you going wait till it bursts first?

On March 27 more than 100 died after the 70-year-old Situ Gintung dam burst. In 2007 residents reported cracks in the wall and asked the public works agency to take action – their pleas went unanswered. Environmental activists say at least six other dams in Jakarta are in urgent need of repair.

Kompas – April 1, 2009