The Trade minister says the Indonesian shoe industry is still competitive and sound.

Indonesia has been removed from the Priority Watch List for intellectual property rights violation.

Abu Bakar Ba’asyir urges those bent on jihad to go to the Philippines.

The battle of the cartoon competitions. A group of Muslims in Kediri, East Java, draw insulting pictures of the Danish royal family with pigs.

Excitable Bogor residents go on the rampage against heresy.

The government is considering making animism an official religion while some conservative Muslim clerics object.

The family of Fabianus Tibo plan to take their case to the International Court of Justice.

Three Adidas shoe factories in West Java close down.

A large percentage of public servants in Indonesia are on the slow witted side, says a team of psychologists.

Sultry model and actress Sarah Azhari.

Indonesians may have the right to say “wer’e not as bad as Turkey”, if the case of Muazzez Ilmiye Cig is anything to go on.

Indonesia seeks $12 billion in funding for infrastructure projects.

Famous cultural anthropologist Clifford Geertz, pioneer of the study of Indonesian cultures and peoples.

A Jakarta Blok M thug makes good, at Blok M Indonesian restaurant in Melbourne, Australia.

Flag deaths in Indonesia, and Cliff Muntu.

Growth prospects may be harmed by drought while some continue to worry about the lacklustre performance of the economy overall.

A disturbing message was found on the back of a wheelchair given by president Yudhoyono to a crippled man – Jesus Christ.

The residents of Tanah Runtuh in Poso march to demand the withdrawal of outside police units from Poso, Central Sulawesi.

Tommy Suharto walked free from prison today.

The railways industry will be opened up to limited competition but not fully privatised.