The hardline stand taken by Indonesian clerics against homosexuality wins applause from Ross.

Ross fears that Jalan Jaksa in Jakarta is going to suffer re-development.

Ross on how to self-publish books in Indonesia.

Ross sees the young Pramoedya Ananta Toer as a bullying commissar of literature.

Ross continues to be infuriated by the lovely Julia Suryakusuma, and other intellectuals.

Ross fumes against sharia byelaws in Indonesia.

Celebrity thugs and murderers in prison and on TV, Enrico Guterres, Theo Toemion, and the "lovely" Lidya Pratiwi.

The Indonesian way of death is too graphic for some.

Whether there was a genocide in 1965 and what happened to the survivors.

Ross worries that western do-gooders are trying to have spanking and caning outlawed.

Ross complains that the Jakarta Post newspaper is too left wing.

Ross on Metro TV's Chinese-language news service, Xin Wen.

Ross says "kampung" girls are the best.

Ross is less than enthused about Fauzi Bowo's election as Jakarta governor.

Ross asks whether the government is willing to bring some Muslims into the 21st century.

Ross complains that the global warming/climate change bandwagon has reached Jakarta.

Ross asks whether Indonesia needs a federal system, amid the separatist hysteria of late.

Governor Sutiyoso and anti-Australianism and street thuggery.

Whose side are the security forces on? asks Ross.

Hope For the Helpless? Overseas Workers Ordeals, by Ross.