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A DPR member was caught red-handed receiving a bribe. And that's more than just 'Street Gossip.'

April 15, 2008

HAVE you heard the song Street Gossip by the rock group Slank? It is a song protesting inequality in this nation-a fact that is already public knowledge. It is about police officers who take bribes, drug dealers that come and go in jails, the justice mafia and barbaric actions committed by respected leaders in the name of God.

The song is also about the "mafia" in Senayan, home to our parliamentarians. The lyric goes: Have you heard about the mafia

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