The Instagram account @cabinetcouture_season2 prices the handbags, watches and outfits that Indonesia’s political elite show off online. (Photos: Instagram/@cabinetcouture_season2)
\n\nSteal-the-look accounts usually exist to help fans afford a celebrity’s outfit. An Instagram account, Cabinet Couture borrowed the format and aimed it at Indonesia’s political elite. The anonymous collective takes public photos of officials and their families, identifies the handbags, watches and shoes, and reposts them with the price attached.
\n\nIn an interview with Karina Widarta for Dazed, one of the admins said the account began days after the death of Affan Kurniawan, a 21-year-old ride-hailing driver run over by a police vehicle in Jakarta on 28 August 2025. Anger, they said, had reached breaking point while officials kept flaunting their lifestyles. Within a week, the page had almost 120,000 followers.
\n\nMass protests had been building over reports that each member of the House of Representatives would receive 100 million rupiah (£4,144) a month, half of it as housing allowance. The average monthly income across Indonesia’s labour sectors is a little over 3.2 million rupiah (£132.64), according to BPS Statistics Indonesia.
\n\nThe collective says the most common pattern it finds is a gap between the income officials declare in the State…
Original source: https://www.timesnownews.com/lifestyle
