Pricey Jeep spurs Twitter backlash against Indonesia tax office

Indrawati during the Group of 20 (G-20) finance ministers and central bank governors meeting in Bengaluru, India. Indrawati, who has long championed the importance of public trust in ramping up tax compliance, has become the target of Indonesians’ ire. On Twitter, the hashtag #SriMulyaniOMDO or ‘Sri Mulyani all talk’ is trending as Indonesians called for more action. — Bloomberg

Indonesians flooded social media to urge Finance Minister Sri Mulyani Indrawati to take stronger steps to root out corruption at the tax office.

It started from a tax officer’s son who was arrested for violently beating up a teenager. The case led people to find his social media posts where he showed off his family’s wealth, with videos of him running loops on a Harley-Davidson motorbike and cruising in a Jeep Wrangler Rubicon. That raised questions of how the tax officer could afford such assets on a civil servant’s wage.