Desperately seeking briber's photo

JAKARTA: For Ruhayah (not her real name), 50, from Cisauk subdistrict, Serpong, Tangerang, the newspaper-sized ballot paper really confused her.

It was not just that the paper was excessively large; there were 24 party symbols and hundreds of photos of legislative candidates on it.

Illiterate Ruhayah said she stood in the polling booth for about 15 minutes looking for the photo of a legislative candidate who had given her Rp 25,000 (US$2.97) on Sunday.

"I tried to find the photo of the candidate ... but I couldn't because there were too many on the paper," she said.

She finally gave up and punched only a party symbol. -- JP