List of the various political isms, neo-liberalism, capitalism, imperialism, and colonialism, and materialism.

Examples of Islamic-Javanese religious and cultural syncretism.

Abdurrahman Wahid aka Gus Dur is awarded a Medal of Valor by the Simon Wiesenthal Center.

Front Pembela Islam FPI preacher Ahmad Sobri Lubis incites murder.

The Indonesian state remains vigilant against acts of treason and the following trials and penalties.

People in West Java are flocking to the shopping mall churches to pray.

Major General Suwarno of the TNI, VIP escort for Jusuf Kalla, has a lot on his mind.

Hizbullah Al Manar television become available to Indonesians courtesy of Indosat.

Those people in West Java who are too impatient for the Ahmadiyah ban.

A formal ban on Ahmadiyah gets closer.

Syamsul Arifin and Gatot Pujo Nugroho win the North Sumatra election.

A victory for Islamic parties in the West Java election, led by Ahmad Heryawan and Dede Yusuf.

Islamophobia in Australia and Bali.

President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono’s boring speeches put people to sleep.

Whether the PDI-P, PDI Perjuangan, is a party of thugs, Christians and communists, or is Muslim.

The lyrics and music of Slank’s song Gosip Jalanan (Street Talk).

The arrest of politician Al Amin Nur Nasution, husband of Kristina Iswandari, on corruption charges.

Block Youtube.com, Myspace.com and other video sharing and social sites.

Siti Fadilah Supari, minister for Health.

Chastity locks for female massage parlor workers.

The film Ketika Cinta Bertasbih and not hurting the feelings of religious minorities.

On whether women, in this case Khofifah Indar Parawansa, are suitable for leadership positions.

The Battle of the Movies, Ayat-Ayat Cinta and Fitna, which gives a better picture of Islam?

Government efforts to regulate the internet and block access to websites thought inappropriate.

Sandra Dewi on quickies, spying, naked photos, and Keanu Reeves.

Some of Abu Bakar Bashir’s village musings have Australians outraged.

Easter celebrations in Indonesia, a service in Bogor is broken up, mayhem in Atambua.

Immigration problems for actress Rianti Cartwright and a Japanese wife seeker.

Activists and youth groups running amok in search of alcohol and the attractions of Batam.

Pressure on the government to enact special laws against religious cults, blasphemy trials in Jambi, and United Nations interest.

Young actresses Carissa Putri and Melanie Putria discuss polygamy.

The Islamic romance film and novel Ayat Ayat Cinta by Habiburrahman El-Shirazy.

The commercialisation of the Hindu festival of Nyepi in Bali.

Foreign efforts to eradicate female genital mutilation.

Arms race in southern Asia, Australia’s regional hegemonic aspirations and Indonesian procurements of military weapons and aircraft.

Yusril Ihza Mahendra, Admiral Cheng Ho film star, legal theorist, and presidential aspirant

The assimilation of Chinese into Indonesian society, and rules for holding barongsai dances and celebrating Chinese New Year.

Indonesia’s lukewarm response to Kosovo statehood.

Tempo magazine and its Leonardo da Vinci’s The Last Supper fake.

President Yudhoyono’s visit to the Netherlands, and airline maintenance problems.

Whether the government should pay heed to fatwas issued by the clerics’ council.

Valentines Day, as a Jewish conspiracy theory.

Media self censorship in Indonesia, a self-censored media.

Indonesian students studying abroad in Australia.

The west feels threatened by the rise of Islam in Indonesia.

The Miss Indonesia 2008 beauty pageant in Palembang.

The Partai Keadilan Sejahtera broadens its electoral and cultural horizons, in Bali.

Massage parlours in Jakarta, and what might be going on in them.

Military men in politics and whether the Indonesian people are ready for democracy.

The Israeli Palestinian conflict, and Indonesia’s relationship with Israel.

Al Jemaah Al Islamiyah, terrorist organisations, and the terror threat in Poso in 2008.

Why there is so much church persecution in western Java.

The Ahmadiyya sect acknowledges Muhammad as the last prophet, and Mirza Ghulam Ahmad as simply a teacher.

The compulsory usage of Javanese language in schools.

Whether to forgive former president Suharto, as he nears death.

Indonesia is undergoing soft Islamization.

Whether to ban Islamic sects like Ahmadiyah.

Western aid agencies and their gender equity agenda in Indonesia.

Selamat Natal, or Merry Christmas, in Indonesia.

Whether women soldiers and policewomen can wear Muslim headscarves.

New Year’s Eve parties and celebrations in Indonesia.

Stories of religious intolerance in Indonesia, involving Islamic schools and mosques being attacked.

The entrance of global culture into Bali and its effects on Hindus.

Indonesian police, corruption, bribery and graft.

Attempts to have local religions in Kalimantan, such as Kaharingan, recognised by the government.

Doomsayers predict disaster for Indonesia as sea levels rise.

Some fear the rise of a morality police.

The learning of Bahasa Indonesia in Australia.

Both Islamic militants and Golkar lose in the South Sulawesi election.

General Djoko Santoso and the problem of foreign agents.

The question of ethnicity and the Javanese.

Quranic ringtones for mobile phones and handphones.

The MUI, Clerics’ Council, Majelis Ulama Indonesia.

Whether the introduction of military conscription is right for Indonesia.

Child sex tourism in Bali and the problem of pedophiles.

Little chance of a military coup in Indonesia.

The Bahai religion in Indonesia.

Whether cigarette smoking is a sin in Islam.

The validity or otherwise of different Muslim beliefs.

Mainstream Islam groups Muhammadiyah and Nahdlatul Ulama clash in Banyuwangi.

The most influential women in Indonesia.

A mufti council and grand Mufti for Indonesia.

Malaysian theft of the “Rasa Sayange” song.

Islamic art principles and modern Indonesian art.

Juwono Sudarsono offers advice for democracy obsessed westerners.

Muslims and Christians get along just fine in North Sulawesi.

Those still loyal to the New Order and Soeharto.

President Sukarno and Aidit’s communist coup attempt in 1965.

Salma, Islamic barbie dolls for Indonesian girls.

Indonesia doesn’t need foreign government aid, says Bachtiar Chamsyah.

Semi theocracy in Bogor and Padang, as the Al-Qiyadah Al-Islamiyah sect is banned.

Video of an FPI raid on people not fasting for Ramadan.

Indonesians are divided on the question of stoning people to death for extra-marital affairs.

Remembering the Communist Party (PKI) in the post Suharto era.

Laws that discriminate against Indonesian women.

Soon to be ex-Governor of Jakarta, Sutiyoso, intends to run for president.

A student posing naked on the internet and death threats.

Political stability and rule of law conditions, 1996 to 2006.

Television programs that violate Islamic law.

Islamic law hinders reconstruction in Aceh.

Rhoma Irama advises Indonesian Muslims to stop fighting each other.

An fundamentalist Muslim mosque is attacked in Jember.

Former president Suharto and stolen state assets.

Sex cinemas, and how non-Muslims should behave during Ramadan.

The Wahidiyah movement is attacked in Tasikmalaya.

Women are not allowed in the Sultan mosque in Ternate.

The Batam airwaves are often a mix of foreign and religious content.

Laws against giving money to street beggars.

Press freedom is threatened in the outcome of the Soeharto vs. Time libel case.

Marrying and spreading the faith in Kalimantan.

Australia insults president Yudhoyono.

A church in Tangerang, West Java is attacked.

International Hijab Solidarity Day is marked in Semarang.

Muslim preachers make too many jokes when giving sermons.

Muslim-Christian live-in programs in Indonesia.

PLTN Muria, and nuclear energy in general, is haram too, for some.

Pornography and indecency in Indonesia causes rape and lifetime misery.

Four ways you can possibly get around the law against mixed-religion marriages.

Golkar’s religious roadshow, led by Priyo Budi Santoso.

Centrist political leaders, young and old, criticise religion based laws.

The young people of Indonesia are industrious makers of porn videos.

Indonesians are often ill-treated abroad, by cruel Saudis and arrogant Malaysians, like Donald Pieter Luther Kolopita.

Singer Rebecca Suyati Reijman falls afoul of Islamic law in Aceh at a Nidji concert.

The Munir murder case.

The nightspots of Batam are urged to close down for Ramadhan.

Sharia can be applied without making Indonesia an Islamic state.

Secularism is not to be feared by Muslims.

The character of Indonesians is at its lowest point ever.

Schoolgirl virginity tests for teens in Indramayu.

Sexy dangdut dancing and singing in Cianjur for independence day.

The bomb in Pasuruan.

Old time nationalism from Tjahjo Kumolo of the PDI-P.

Hizb ut-Tahrir’s caliphate conference in Jakarta.

Pigs and pork eating and touching in Islam.

Less than enthused about Fauzi Bowo’s election as Jakarta governor.

The burning of history books.

Indonesian Muslims still have some way to go in learning Islam.

The PKS wants no association with bra cleavage.

The dark arts of black magic spells are at play in the Jakarta election.

A State of Emergency needs to be declared in Bandung, because of prostitution.

Pantheism survives on Java, although it sometimes needs police protection.

Sharia as a set of personal holy obligations, or as a state-enforced system.

Pragmatic politics versus religious zeal.

A presidential scandal involving Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono.

Nahdlatul Ulama continues to feel under threat, from transnational Islam and politicians.

Islam has no relationship to terrorism.

The government reaches out to heretics.

Indonesia has suffered a great number of insults to its pride and integrity recently.

President Yudhoyono is disturbed by a group of dancing separatists in Ambon.

Christian evangelizing efforts to Muslims in Aceh.

The Golkar and PDI-P parties form an alliance.

The Javanese are more likely to become terrorists than other ethnic groups.

Sharia, caning, and violations of human rights.

Western-style democracy is not suitable for Indonesia.

People are anti-social and individualist, allowing terrorists to hide easily.

Salman Rushdie’s knighthood has some Indonesian Muslims upset.

Women university students in tight clothing.

An environmentalist fatwa from the Majelis Ulama Indonesia (MUI).

Human rights violations against Abu Dujana (Yusron Mahmudi/Ainul Bahri) and his children.

Heresy in Banten usually occurs in dark rooms.

The Aceh Thaliban Party.

Illegal churches in Bekasi are urged to get their paperwork in order.

From Tanatoraja to Javanese, the dying languages of Indonesia.

The leader of Jamaah Islamiyah (JI), Abu Irsyad alias Zarkarsih, is captured by police.

The Australian and Indonesian police forces are firm friends.

The re-emergence of communism in Bekasi.

Competing views about the current strength of hardline Islam in Indonesia.

Banning mystical and alternative medicine on television.

Kidnapping of terrorists.

Book censorship of Indonesian books in Malaysia.

Business and foreign interests in the Pasuruan shootings incident.

Young men and women are still fraternizing freely in Aceh.

Dress rules for school uniforms for students in Tangerang.

Sunday school lessons in Bandung are stopped and the pastor beaten.

The national ideology of the state, Islamic or Pancasila, is still a festering issue for some.

Islamic preachers are increasingly teaching hardline, militant Islam.

Remembering the massacre at the Wali Songo School in Poso.

Bali seeks special autonomous status.

Dealing with pornography and protecting children.

The Catholic minority and Catholic churches in Madura.

President Yudhoyono outlines his three Dont’s.

Arab ideologists of Islam often label the rituals and beliefs of Indonesian Islam as pagan.

Islam religion in politics and preacher or clerical involvement in politics.

President Yudhoyono makes a field trip to a village.

Feminism and Islam and Indonesian women.

Indonesians have conservative moral values and beliefs and so sharia based laws are natural.

A 3gp handphone sex movie in Madura has clerics calling for tighter laws against pornography.

Rough justice for young love.

People trust religious leaders the most and view religion as the basis of nationality.

Bursah Zarnubi says the Reform Star Party needs religious training, while its women wear tank tops.

Chinese people getting involved in politics, and inter-marrying.

Cirebon is rocked by a Muhammad photo scandal, The Journey of Prophet Muhammad.

Yusril Ihza Mahendra’s dismissal from the Cabinet, foreign interference, and presidential plans.

An anti Islam website run by a Christian political party.

The 1974 Marriage Law violates religious freedom.

The building of a new Pentacostal church in North Jakarta has been stopped.

The “True Islam” group in Lebak are urged to return to true Islam.

There was no genocide or serious human rights abuse in East Timor.

A holy books mix up, insertion of pages of the Bible into copies of the Quran.

Tukul Arwana of Empat Mata on Metro TV.