Duty/tax-free shopping for tourists is coming to Indonesia, sort of; comparison with Singapore duty free shopping.

Tanjung Puting national park in Borneo among the winners in the inaugural Citra Pesona Wisata (Cipta Award) tourism awards.

How to get where you family needs to go with minimal stress? Which Indonesian airline is best suited to bringing the wife and kids?

Why Indonesians are not big book readers; ‘Reading Ambassador’ Tantowi Yahya holds forth on the issue and blames poverty.

Reporting on possible foreigner deaths from earthquakes and tsunamis, like in Mentawai.

Jusuf Kalla chides the residents of the slopes of Mt Merapi for believing in superstition, instead of trusting government.

Plans to install CCTV surveillance cameras in the red light district of Surabaya, Dolly, as the noose tightens around it.

The debate over whether to award former president Soeharto national hero status.

Turning Panjang Beach into a tourist mecca to rival Kuta, Bali; the homestays have been prepared.

How separatists are dealt with in West Papua; the torture of Reverend Kindeman Gire.

Starlet Chelsea Olivia on virginity testing for prospective female students of high schools.

President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono cancels a visit to the Netherlands on fears he might be arrested.

Human error blamed for two fatal train crashes in one day, in Solo and Pemalang, total toll 37 people.

The TwitterFool Reloaded: minister Tifatul Sembiring and his humour packed ‘tweeting’ about AIDS.

Nineteen local religions clamouring for state recognition, but the God of Indonesia is a jealous being.

Justice Party (PKS) politician Jazuli Juwaini bloodthirsty salivating over the supposed death of Pastor Bob Old.

South-East Asia’s biggest music festival is coming to Jakarta, supported by a tobacco company.

Winning the race to build houses of worship: proof minorities are not discriminated against.

Local boys, not foreigners like bules, are just fine as boyfriend material for starlet Arumi Bachsin.

The morally righteous Facebook masses in outrage against a brazen middle aged hussy.