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• International Investors: Harm or Help (31)
  • 1 hour 11 minutes ago Sylvester said: Foreign investment is a good thing. Even for the developed countries. Recently, the UK welcome Chinese investment. http://edition.cnn.com/2008...
  • 2 hours 7 minutes ago Sylvester said: Foreign investment is important even for the developed West. Recently, UK welcomes Chinese investment worth USD 200 billion http://edition.cnn.com/2008...
  • 6 hours 48 minutes ago sputjam said: especially in mining and industries that involves natural resources.
  • 6 hours 50 minutes ago sputjam said: benefits to locals from foreign investment is minimal, due to low labour cost. Foreign investors get to use subsidised fuel and power, tax breaks etc. Of course without foreign...
  • 20 hours 16 minutes ago Dylan said: Indonesia is completely different from china. During the time before deng xiao Peng, china had heavy industrial complexes, producing steel, making ships and locomotives, diesel...
• Political Isms (4)
  • 2 hours 28 minutes ago Sylvester said: I think both of them are right at some points (not all). Western governments need a lot of natural resources such as crude oil, coal, gas, ores from the developing countries...
  • 4 hours 3 minutes ago PrimaryDrive said: We should arrest these general and minister for trying to non-sensically educate our population. As the long term impact of wide spread stupidity can seriously harm our...
  • 6 hours 16 minutes ago jaka said: Want to add one: neo-conservatism, either religious or not (like some green movements).
  • 6 hours 26 minutes ago gigi said: Good article. Spot on!
• Ahmadiyah (Nearly) Banned (34)
  • 2 hours 34 minutes ago Mazhar-ul-Haq Khan said: If Indonesian government continue supporting extrimist ideas, Indonesia will soon become another Afghanistan raided by peace keeping forces of UN. Let Indonesia be...
  • 1 day 6 hours ago Irenaeus Ahmad said: Assalamu’alaikum, My name is Irenaeus Ahmad. I’m an Ahmadi Muslim, living in Indonesia. Yes, it’s true we believe that Hz. Mirza Ghulam Ahmad as. was...
• FPI Murder Incitement Video (38)
  • 2 hours 36 minutes ago Andy said: Trouble is the ‘moderate’ Indonesians won’t stand up to these thugs and also won’t condemn them in front of foreigners. Until they have the guts to say what...
  • 1 day 6 hours ago jaka said: And despite critics everywhere on this speech, he is still around and spreading his hatred. Oh, how I love my government. (If somebody should report the police because he spreads...
  • 1 day 11 hours ago Rambutan said: Habib Riziq of the FPI is saying he will “deal with” the preachers who said “provocative” things in the video. And also that he has been to the police and wants to have...
  • 1 day 19 hours ago Abdul Khalid al Jumhuri said: In person, these bunch of morons are the same ones whose a$$ still stucked with our boots when they tried to mess up with our rightful cafes in Kemang some years...
• Islamic-Western Civilization (18)
  • 2 hours 46 minutes ago TV Buff said: I think it is not possible if Christians and Muslim have much in common. Why? because we are all human. I know we are differ in terms of religion but in side our heart we are...
• Fitna by Geert Wilders (270)
  • 3 hours 15 minutes ago gigi said: Islamo-fascists? Muslim bigots? I hear a lot of those words in this thread, and those words came from…non-Muslim bigots! Yes, well I suppose bigotry is fine, as long as it...
• Hizb ut-Tahrir (39)
  • 4 hours 16 minutes ago Kiki said: Do you ever read a history when Islam rule the vast area of the world from morocco to Indonesia? There’s no poverty, no corruption, no genocide, and the gap between the poor...
• Modern Day Witch Hunt (44)
  • 5 hours 27 minutes ago Muchamad Minako-sukamito said: Janma, Yes, Jesus did come 600 Years before Muhammad. What generally muslims beleive is that Prophet MUhammad have foretold a second coming of Jesus after him...
  • 1 day 11 hours ago Janma said: All sects of Muslims do beleive in coming of a Prophet after Muhammad in form of Jesus son of Marry and Imam Mahdi. errr…… didn’t Jesus come before Muhammad?
  • 1 day 14 hours ago timdog said: Dewa: Hinduism doesn’t consider itself as a religion an sich, but rather as a composite of diverse doctrines, cults, and ways of life You are right of course (this is partly...
  • 1 day 18 hours ago Rob said: Tony… I would hope that Indonesia attains all that it can be! I am not hoping for failure but I am also not advocating that the house cleaning that some are keen to see happen...
• Kampung Girls (38)
  • 6 hours 27 minutes ago Tammy Ho said: Mickey: I haven’t come across you so called “well educated, successful women” after years in Indonesia. You’re circulating in the wrong crowd then, man. And how...
• Top 100 Websites (11)
  • 10 hours 52 minutes ago Lex dePraxis said: Grace and Mercy, word!!! :D
• Islamic Syncretism Examples (7)
  • 12 hours 53 minutes ago Cukurungan said: There are also tales attached to individual Walis that span far longer periods than a conceivable human lifetime… Clearly there were more than nine of them. Even now some...
  • 1 day 5 hours ago jaka said: Despite there was a chinese report about chinese muslims lived in Majapahit ports, I have a suspect, that javanese had and have problem in differentiating chinese and chamese (esp....
  • 1 day 11 hours ago Janma said: Thanks Timdog, I enjoyed reading that.
  • 1 day 14 hours ago timdog said: Actually this is nothing new - it has long been recognised (by historians) that the Wali Songo do not represent nine historic individuals but rather an amalgam of probably many...
  • 1 day 19 hours ago Rob said: Maybe this is right up PN’s alley…after the verbal lashing I took last time for commenting out of my depth perhaps it is time I deferred to others, then again maybe not!...
• Female Genital Mutilation (128)
  • 13 hours 25 minutes ago Cukurungan said: Oh yeah, that good old Pancasila. She seems to be terminally ill lately. If we let die the first sila and try to cure the other four silas she still can be of some use in...
  • 14 hours 39 minutes ago Purifying Breeze said: Shloka said “I would also like to add that, Female circumcision also happens in tiny pockets of India. Guess who do it? The Muslim Bohras.Islam took the veil from...
  • 16 hours 4 minutes ago Purifying Breeze said: Ok, first of all, FGM is NOT an Islamic tradition, its not required. Why whould God, the One who loves us most require something so painful? And another thing I would...
• Illegitimate Children (19)
  • 14 hours 7 minutes ago Sherrine Khan said: This is right no child should suffer from the mistakes their parents made and they never chose to enter the world. I know a baby who is being called haram by some of the...
• Citizenship Law (36)
  • 14 hours 16 minutes ago Richard said: Unfortunately the Indonesia government is too short sighted to address the issue of dual citizenship. I am an Australia with and Indonesian wife and despite being married for 6...
  • 23 hours 39 minutes ago Hida said: Hello friends, my name is hidayati, indonesian national, I married with pakistani and now I want that he become national of indonesia I need help and suggestions because its very...
• Jakarta Girls (20)
  • 21 hours 46 minutes ago Lex dePraxis said: This is nonsense. Most of them are fake profiles to lure people joining the service (and then having to pay for it to be able exchanging messages).
  • 1 day 19 hours ago Vicky said: Folks, if any one had a luck let me know as well. :) Well just looking for some nice descent company, that’s plain and simple.
• Sandra Dewi Blog Boyfriend (5)
  • 22 hours 0 minutes ago Lex dePraxis said: “I will happy if her couple is the same religion with her.” FX.Nur, what’s that suppose to mean? Lex
  • 1 day 6 hours ago FX. Nur said: I will proud with SD because he personality. I will happy, if her couple is same religion with her.
• Julia Perez & Kamasutra (22)
  • 23 hours 23 minutes ago gigi said: adrey: how about in africa and in the United States? Only Muslims too with HIV there? Ignorance is bliss, huh?
• Ahmadiyah (2)
  • 1 day 5 hours ago Muchamad Minako-sukamito said: If this is the case then there has to be a hidden agenda for doing all this. It is quite clear that Govt is acting on the behlaf of charlatan organizations like...
• Dating Indonesian Girls (639)
  • 1 day 6 hours ago Atul said: Hi I am coming to indonesia this month, I need a girl friend to roam with, anyone can suggest me what shall I do, please mail me, I need to date an indonesian girl.
• Chinese Policewoman (26)
  • 1 day 11 hours ago Janma said: No, PN…. but I bet you plenty of you ‘bangsatwan pribhumi’s’ from the nice suburbs spend plenty of time and cash in Glodok etc… LOL Reminds me...
• Indonesian Blogs (114)
  • 1 day 12 hours ago Patung said: Noon, ok you’ll have to wait till about the 15th though.
  • 1 day 13 hours ago Noonathome said: Hi Patung! Please add my ‘english’ blog http://wildlifewisdom.wordpres s.com Thanks!
• Examples of Human Rights Hypocrisy (33)
  • 1 day 14 hours ago timdog said: Ana - thank you for your contribution. It is good to have the perspective of an Indonesian in Britain on the poor of that country. You are absolutely right - there is a very...
• Ahmadiyya (130)
  • 1 day 17 hours ago Laeeq said: Hello every one Peace be upon you! Since we don’t know who will go to the hell or paradise, we should shut our mouths, and should pray for our salvage. The situation fo...
• Film Ayat Ayat Cinta (54)
  • 1 day 17 hours ago Andra said: Hmm.. Another arab-isation.. #:-S
• Partai Hanura (35)
  • 1 day 19 hours ago Eddy Sendouw said: Hidup Partai HANURA!!! Dear Mr. Wiranto, We are here in California, U.S.A., and we are longing to be a member of HANURA party that we believe will bring a new hope for all...
• Diana Abbas Thalib (5)
  • 1 day 20 hours ago Hasan Ridho said: Congratulation and hope for the best for the future.

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