Muluk, Bachelor of Management (Reza Rahadian) is in a bad position: he still can't find a job after two years since graduating, his love interest is being wooed by a House of Representative candidate, and the only business he can start on his own is a worm farm. An encounter with a young pickpocket named Komet (Angga Putra) gives Muluk an idea. Muluk meets the pickpocket gang's boss (and practically foster father) Jarot (Tio Pakusadewo) and offers to manage their money for a fee. While this deal gives everyone more money than they ever made, Muluk wants the kids to find a more moral income. Knowing that they need some kind of education first, Muluk recruits his similarly unemployed friends Pipit, Bachelor of Religion (Tika Bravani) and Samsul, Bachelor of Education (Asrul Dahlan), to teach the kids.
This film contains examples of:
- Epic Fail: During one of Pipit's failed attempt to call a television quiz, the caller not only fails to answer a rather easy television quiz, but also insists on keeping her answer after the host corrects her.
- Exact Words: When his father asks what his new job is, Muluk says he works in "human resources development" division of a "poverty reduction" project, which isn't a false description of managing and improving the economy of poor pickpockets, but deliberately leaves out where his money comes from.
- Fridge Logic: In-universe. When Jupri introduces Sabrini to Pac-Man, Sabrini questions why doesn't Pac-Man defecate after eating so much.
- Imagine Spot: Muluk comes to a company that has a job opening, but he must work in Malaysia. After realizing that it means he will become a foreign worker, he has one Imagine Spot of being whipped and immediately backs off.
- Late to the Realization: Played for Drama. Only Muluk's father Makbul immediately realizes the implication of the trio working with pickpockets and at the same time, only Muluk realizes that. Meanwhile, Rachmat and Sabrini are just happy to see them taking care of kids and need to be told by Makbul after they left that Muluk's money come from pickpocketing.
- My God, What Have I Done?: Muluk and Pipit are ashamed of themselves after seeing their fathers cry their eyes out and beg forgiveness from Allah for living off stolen money from them. This is enough to make them quit.
- Never Learned to Read: The pickpockets, since for them, pickpocketing is the only skills that they ever need to have; so Muluk has Samsul teach them how. When Glen's gang protest, Jarot reminds Glen that time he once ran to a police station because he couldn't read the road sign.
- "Ray of Hope" Ending: By the end of the film, almost everyone ends up in the same miserable position as they were in the beginning. However, Komet and a minority of the kids take up Muluk's words and become hawkers. The film ends with Muluk keeps cheering them on as he is taken into custody by the police for defending them.
- "The Reason You Suck" Speech: The night after Muluk, Pipit and Samsul leaves, Jarot goes on a rant calling out the kids for not wanting to be anything more than pickpockets, even after Muluk tries to give them the way, and how uneducated pickpockets like them has no good future.
- Take Me Instead: In the climax, Muluk frees the kid whom the police manage to get hold of and tells them to arrest him since he is the one who order the kid to sell on streets. They do, but more because he yells at them to arrest corrupt politicians and they are confused about what's the deal with him.
