The Indonesian anarcho-communist rock band from Bandung, Homicide.

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

Ross rails against the techniques of hospital debt collectors on reality television in Indonesia.

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

RD on Indonesian airline frequent flyer and loyalty programs, are they the world’s lamest, or just the least used?

Achmad Sudarsono and Ross Mckay, old enemies face off in a virtual insults duel.

Women in politics in Indonesia, women politicians and power.

The travel highlights of Indonesia, as seen on the country’s banknotes and currency.

Is Jakarta one of the top ten worst cities in the world to live in?

A comparison of Indonesian airlines’ online booking websites.

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

Desperately seeking seclusion? RD on Indonesia’s best deserted beaches.

Ross reels at the sight of TV soap Hareem, a harem love story, and wonders whether it is the worst sinetron ever.

Visiting Lamongan in East Java, tourist highlights of Lamongan.

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

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

In Java and some parts of Sumatra, train lines continue to operate commuter services between numerous large and not so large cities of Indonesia.

The Righteous Dude wonders about travel writers’ priorities when selecting Indonesian tourist attraction highlights, is Indonesia the Land of the 5-Star Resort?

Employers’ obsession with physical appearance at work.

Achmad wonders what is behind Indonesia’s trail of natural disasters, is it the CIA and FBI?

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

Mixing Sundanese disco music and Islam is a recipe for trouble in West Java, and community “mediation”, as Ross finds out.

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

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

Article on bias in the media, examples of Islamist bias on television screens in Indonesia.

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

Ross on the bigotry of teachers of religion in Islamic schools, religious differences and tolerance of pluralism.

Willie Soon & Christopher Monckton, climate change sceptics, look at weather patterns and temperatures in Indonesia and the “saving the planet” mantra.

Ross rails forth against an ex-deacon of IPDN, Lexie M. Giroth, murder cover up convict and now promoted professor.

Another English language newspaper in Indonesia, the Jakarta Globe.

Treespotter presents the pro death penalty argument, in favour of capital punishment.

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

Clare recounts his daughter’s experience of being a single mother 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 and the people of Bali.

Defending the monarchical principle in government and the Sultanate of Yogyakarta’s special status.

Timdog on the history, culture, and popular urban myths and stereotypes about Madura and the Madurese.

Confusion over Eid Al Fitr celebrations and what date they should be held on.

Morgan survey on Indonesian perceptions and anxieties concerning National Unity.

Ross on sharia lite in Tangerang and Mayor Wahidin Halim’s re-election bid.

The Dutch state being sued over war crimes at Rawagede, West Java.

A short explanation and some proper etiquette for expats during Ramadan period.

A call for a series of public presidential debates.

Purba Negoro on how expats in Indonesia can lend a hand by helping and contributing to charitable organizations.

Perseus on Francis Fukuyama and whether Islamism will derail Indonesia’s new liberal democracy.

Purba Negoro on the future of Javanese language, and learning some easy words and phrases.

Indonesian elderly care nurses for Japan, and the Japanese contribution to Indonesian development.

The next target of Islamic fanatics will be old Javanese customs and traditions.

Purba Negoro celebrates Indonesia’s national independence day.

Discussion on abuse of Indonesian maids in Singapore and Malaysia.

Ross questions the motives of subversive Islamic groups sensitivity over Papua.

The legends of Niwatakawaca, Rahwana, Cakil and Pasopati, and Indonesian defence.

Ramadan approaches, again, and Ross complains that religious leaders are intent on spoiling others’ fun and livelihoods.

Perseus on white girls not going for Asian guys, and differences between white women and Indonesian women.

Sinister motives behind renewed debate over the death penalty and convicts on death row.

TVRI is cheating the nation out of seeing Dewi Persik and Wong Telu.

Hans takes a pictorial look at differences between Indonesians in Jakarta and their western guests.

BIN chief Muchdi Purwopranjono’s arrest by Indonesian police over the murder of human rights activist Munir.

Syamsidik says Indonesia gets upset with Malaysia a lot, but the Malaysians don’t pay attention, like in the helipad issue.

Lairedion on the Euro 2008 football championship, and the Indonesian connection.

Pramoedya Ananta Toer is given the literary parody treatment by Timdog.

Rima says religion and religiosity are to blame for much of Indonesia’s troubles.

Sadanand Dhume’s My Friend the Fanatic - Travels with an Indonesian Islamist.

Frozen Assets - good citizens in suspended animation.

Stereotypes of Chinese in Indonesia, how Asians fare in Australia, and western men who like Asian women.

Tips for travelling on Jakarta’s buses, the Jakarta public transportation network.

Single, overseas educated Indonesian women are faced with prejudice back at home and poor choices on the men front.

The May 1998 riots in Jakarta and other Indonesian cities, mass rapes, anti-Chinese sentiment, and how the rioters came to be viewed.

On whether informal transportation jobs like ojeg driving can provide an adequate livelihood.

Indonesians are being denied much of the country’s greatest literature, for political reasons.

The Indonesian government creates distractions and the media willingly participate, to hide the real problems of Indonesia.

Islamic & Western Civilization, and Muslims and Christians, have much in common.

A plea to defend Jamaah Ahmadiyah against a modern day witch hunt.

The red light brothel district, or lokalisasi, of Dolly in Surabaya.

Power-mongering and the profit motive behind the West’s examples of hypocrisy over human rights

Whether the state or parents have the right and responsibility to censor internet pornography.

On what gives countries the rights to make territorial claims.

Why people should have compassion, and its relation to theology and religion.

Sexy dangdut singer Dewi Persik.

The stance of Indonesian clerics against homosexuality and about curing it.

Religion, culture and conversion in Nusa Tenggara.

Jalan Jaksa in Jakarta is going to suffer re-development.

On the harmony or otherwise between democracy and Islam.

The banned movie about the Bali bombings, Promised Paradise.

How to self publish books cheaply and easily.

The gathering storm over Geert Wilders anti-Islam film Fitna.

Pramoedya Ananta Toer as a bullying commissar of literature.

The lovely Julia Suryakusuma, and other intellectuals, commit treason.