First try

Have you ever been stopped by a police? I mean, it happened when you unintentionally break the law, say, you drove a long when the light was red? Well, I have.

I passed through this limited passenger lane when a police stopped me and asked for my driver's licence (he stopped me because I was the only person in the car while the lane required me to have at least three persons inside). It is not that I did not want to obey that requirement, I simply found it stupid to find two more passengers from the street just to fill my car to be able for it going through few hundreds meter of lane before entering to the toll road. Anyway, the officer checked my licence, took it, gave a ticket to attend the hearing in Central Jakarta Court.

I went to the court two weeks after the predetermined date as I just recovered from the dengue. The officer there told me that my files had been sent to traffic police headquarter, so it was better for me to go there instead. I went there to arrange it.

On the way there by the luxurious busway, courtesy of Bang Yos, I have prepared myself to wait for long hours of uncertainty and other fussy this and that. To my surprise, once I produced my ticket to the officer at the police headquarter, he let me wait only for 15 easy minutes, called up my name, asked me to pay 50.000 rupiah, gave me my driver's licence, and they allowed me to go on with my life.

Did they give me a receipt for the fine? what receipt? I got my licence, did not have to wait, I can drive my dear old car again. Who cares about the receipt. What receipt?