An unwanted gibberish act from our politicians

JAKARTA: We have to hand it to the House of Representatives (DPR) for taking up the role of a trendsetter in this country. Long before the MTV generation in Indonesia took up the Aserej craze, our honourable elected politicians have been doing it, or something similar to that tune, for much of the past year. 

Anyone familiar with the lyrics of the Ketchup Song knows that you cannot translate the chorus – Aserej? je, de je de jebe, tu de jebere, seibiunouva, majavi an de bugui, an de buididipi – into any intelligible sentence. That’s because they were just a bunch of meaningless words, to most English speakers. But they are convenient to rap to. And catchy.