THE picture showed a young couple relaxing as they sipped tea on the terrace of their apartment. They seemed to be watching the afternoon traffic jam at the Tugu Pancoran crossroads that stretched back to Jalan Gatot Subroto and further on to Jalan Raya Pasar Minggu in South Jakarta.

It was an advertising photo for the Agung Podomoro Group, a company in the property sector that is currently on the up and up. The message was clearly to encourage