slip
Australian drug trafficker and one-time celebrity, Schapelle Corby, spent an hour trapped by journalists in a Bali salon. Schapelle, who is 3 years into a 20 year prison sentence apparently ducked off to get her hair and nails done after receiving treatment for depression at a Bali hospital. As you’d expect, the media descended on the salon faster than you can say “That’s not mine, I don’t know how that got there.”
poor-ish
With scandal and gossip surrounding the three or four high profile corruption cases on trial (by media), you could be excused for missing a puzzling press release issued by Indonesia’s central statistics agency, the BPS.
According to the BPS, the number of poor people in Indonesia fell by 2.21 million between March 2007 and March 2008. According to the Jakarta Post and Antara news service, this is 15% decrease. According to my maths, a decrease from