Ministers, The Most Photographed & Quoted

Indonesian ministers are among the most photographed personalities in the newspapers simply because they regularly appear in public events like seminars, workshops, groundbreaking ceremonies, inaugurations, companies' birthdays, hearings with parliament members etc.

I just don't understand what is the benefit for readers to see their faces every day? Don't we have more beautiful sights and sceneries to show how beautiful this country is? Don't we have more dreadful sights and hardships to share with than these same-old faces?
In the last few days, I saw the picture of SOE Minister Sugiharto in various newspapers several times. One newspaper even published two of his photographs. Finance Minister Sri Mulyani is also among the most photographed (not for good looking, I guess). Aburizal Bakrie, the coordinating minister for people's welfare and Energy Minister Purnomo Yusgiantoro are also in the list.
These ministers are also the most quoted officers. We have their statements every day just like the information on stock price movements or rupiah value against US dollar. It's constantly changed, mechanistic, nothing new, just statements, empty words, no meanings, no decisions made. Altogether, we see newspapers increasingly become ministries' newsletters.
Below these ministers, we also see regularly pictures or headshots of SOE CEOs like, among others, Agus Martowardojo (Bank Mandiri), Sigit Pramono (BNI), or Ari Sumarno (Pertamina), while performance of these SOEs are not as good as their photographs.

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