Ross McKay's latest novel 'Jakarta Suckers!', bule-prostitute romance blossoms on Jl Falatehan.

The luxury tax on alcohol to be abolished, while consumers are not expected to benefit.

Sectarian mapping of cities to prevent conflict, as another church, in Bekasi, is closed.

Visiting charitable homes for children and homeless in Malang, with Madrotter and a Dutch tv star.

Expat men in Indonesia and their love affairs with lower class women, opposites attract.

This Valentine's Day, TRD invites submissions for a Jakartan tribute film to celebrate the Big Durian.

Jakarta Governor Fauzi Bowo and the Health Dept to deny smokers and their families health care.

How some Indonesian hospitals treat complaints & the poor, kidnapping & false imprisonment.

The types of Bulwom in Indonesia, bule women, and how they fare in attracting local men.

A new mysterious political movement led by Surya Paloh, Nasional Demokrat, launches.

A smouldering civil war among the elites, Army power plays, and Chinese scapegoats.

Women's hair issues dominate discussions at an East Java clerics' meeting.

A school principal blames a djinn spirit for an alleged sexual assault on a student.

The 'sel mewah' scandal, rich convicts like Artalyta Suryani living in luxury in Jakarta's prisons.

Mystics and Islamists battle it out in a Javanese village, Andrew Beatty's "A Shadow Falls".

Six months after the bombings, is it "business as usual" for Jakarta hotels' security?

The BBC says Pulau Weh in Aceh is the next great location for diving enthusiasts.

Suggestions to while away the lazy holiday days engrossed in worthy tomes of literature.

Travelling about Jakarta by taxi, Bluebird, Express, Trans Taxi, the good, the bad, and the ugly.

President Yudhoyono's attention focus, the Bibit-Chandra case vs electricity crisis in Jakarta.

An impassioned plea for dangdut music on TPI and an ode to its earthy soulful charms.

Whither dangdut mania? Financial woes of TV station TPI puts dangdut music under threat.

Quench your thirst, a survey of Indonesia's tastiest drinks and beverages.

The protests and furore over allowing the burial of killed extremists in and around Solo.

Two clouds with silver linings, Tommy Suharto's bid for Golkar, and sharia stoning laws in Aceh.

Jakarta's anti begging law in the light of constitutional freedom of speech.

Other worldly factors in climate change, are Indonesian students right?

Short story competition on the culture wars, Timdog and Ross go head to head.

Have the wealthy women of leisure in Jakarta lost their mothering instincts?

Review of film Merah Putih, evil colonialists & brave patriots.

TRD finds it atop Mt Kelimutu, in Flores, Nusa Tenggara Timur.

Ross finds shameful bigotry in the fair city of Tangerang.

Ross rails against continued neglect of Ahmadiyah people in Lombok.

TRD visits the only hobbit cave this side of Middle-Earth.

EU lifts Indonesian flight ban, international media and public wonder about the reality.

TRD visits Lusi, the hot mud eruption site in Sidoarjo, East Java.

A branch of the Sufi sect Tarekat Naqsyabandiyah is the latest target of the MUI.

Madrotter on Bandung rockers "Homicide", their music and battles with the FPI.

Lacklustre televised presidential debates are a ruling class ruse, rails Ross.

Ross rails against hospital debt collectors on reality television.

TRD wonders if expats don't get (m)any visitors from home.

Are frequent flyer programs here the world's lamest, or just the least used?

The long wait is over, Achmad & Ross finally face off in 300.

More women politicians is what is needed, some say.

RD consults another source for travel advice.

Is Jakarta one of the worst third world hellholes?

A comparison of Indonesian airlines' online booking websites.

Who is behind the recent violence in Aceh, and the sharia laws.

Want to get away and lie on a beach? Read on.

What's the worst sinetron ever? Ross reels at the sight of Hareem.

The Righteous Dude receives travel advice from his local caleg.

The Righteous Dude lobs a few ideas for increasing the number of tourists visiting Indonesia.

Ross sees parallels between the Justice Party/PKS, and the PKI of old.

The Righteous Dude recommends inter-city trains for tourists, and maybe locals too.

The Righteous Dude wonders about travel writers’ priorities when selecting Indonesian tourist attraction highlights.

Ross finds fault in employers' obsession with physical appearance.

Achmad wonders what is behind Indonesia's trail of natural disasters.

Ross rails that faraway refugees in the Middle East excite more sympathy than refugees in Lombok.

Mixing Sundanese disco music and Islam invites bigotry and later "mediation" in West Java, as Ross finds out.

Ross calls for a boycott of Blok M Square, as small traders are driven out.

Ross rails that Gestapo style methods of interrogation are used by the sharia police in Aceh.

Bias in the media, examples of Islamist bias on television have Ross railing.

Purba on eating habits and foods of Indonesians, prevalence of diabetes and obesity.

Ross on the bigotry of teachers of religion in Islamic schools, ideological jilbabs, and Dewi Persik.

Willie Soon & Christopher Monckton, climate change sceptics, on temperature levels in Indonesia and the "saving the planet" mantra.

Ross rails forth on the ex faculty deacon of IPDN, Lexie M. Giroth, murder cover up convict and now promoted professor.

Another English language newspaper launches, the Jakarta Globe.

Treespotter looks at capital punishment around the world, and an argument in favour of it.

Purba on Barry Soetoro aka Barack Obama's Indonesian connection.

Clare recounts his daughter's experience of having a child out of wedlock in Yogyakarta.

Ross lambasts the legal profession for its tolerance of the Tim Pembela Muslim (TPM), the Muslim Lawyers' Team.

Ross bemoans the fact that FPI leader Habib Rizieq was only jailed for 18 months.

Purba Negoro sees broad sunlit uplands for East Timor-Indonesia relations, and current Australian nefariousness.

Questions about Balinese culture from Rayner.

Ross defends the monarchical principle and the Sultan of Yogyakarta's authority.