Obscure branches of the MUI have their 15 minutes of fame in protest at the '2012' doomsday movie.

President Yudhoyono's attention focus, the Bibit-Chandra case vs electricity crisis in Jakarta.

A review of "The Indonesia Reader", an anthology of Indonesian history, culture and politics.

An impassioned plea for dangdut music on TPI and an ode to its earthy soulful charms.

I loph you full Indonesia, youthful, artistic expressions of nationalism by the roadside.

The orangutans in Borneo and Sumatra, destruction of their habitat, and efforts to help them.

Whither dangdut mania? Financial woes of TV station TPI puts dangdut music under threat.

A newly released film on East Timor in 1999 opens old wounds between Indonesia and Australia.

Wheeling & dealing in the selection of the 2009-2014 Cabinet, foreign plants & political hacks.

Man's man Ahmad Dhani, on cowardly monogamists and what men want, multiple shapely behinds.

The worldwide internet broadband speed and quality stakes, where Indonesia ranks.

State imposed religiosity and conformity, or freedom from woeful ignorance of holy texts.