On Indonesian roads, traffic controllers seem to pop up out of nowhere. One minute someone's stopping traffic outside a little restaurant, the next some random guy is manually directing traffic at a busy intersection.

Often they're just regular people trying to make some cash. It's not exactly big money, but they do manage to pocket a couple bucks a day. They're called Pak Oga. Named after a lazy, unemployed character from a children's puppet show, who'd reluctantly take on work for a little pay, and his most famous line was: "a hundred rupiah first!"

Authorities try to crack down on these guys. They'll arrest the occasional "traffic controller," confiscate their daily earnings, but by the next day they're back at their "posts." There was even talk about legalizing the whole thing—training all these "traffic cops" and giving them uniforms—but it never really went anywhere.