This one was on the Surabaya-Probolinggo bus (Dangdut Bus 1). It says "Sorry! Only for pee." No doubt this was because the toilet was perched over a hole in the bus floor and the bus company felt there were limits to how much it could foul the roadways of East Java.
I really like this one. It was painted on the wall of the train station across from the Margo Utomo plantation in Kalibaru, and it says "No Peeing Here Except Dogs." That's rather sly, because in Indonesia calling someone a dog is an extremely grave insult.
This last one is a pricing chart from a bathroom at a Hindu temple complex in Bali. In Indonesian, pee is "little water" (air kecil) and poop is "big water" (air besar). Apparently they couldn't find an appropriate term for solid waste in English, so they decorously left that part blank.
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I kinda want to ask about that last photo with the price list... and I kinda don't.
That is awesome. For more Indonesian potty (sign) humour and various other accidental signs, take a look at these sites, dilligently compiled by some friends of mine:
http://nicetry.tumblr.com/
http://www.serasasekali.blogspot.com/
Ha! I love Kungpu Panda and the Calven Klain underwear (especially with two different spellings on the same pair of underwear)!
M, I think I see where you're going with this, ha. And the answer is no, nobody came around to check. I think they just charged more for the Western-style toilets as opposed to the squat toilets.
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