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.
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.
Thugs and murderers, celebrity jailbirds, Enrico Gutierres, Theo Toemion, and the lovely Lidya Pratiwi.
The effects of tourism in Bali, neo-colonialist attitudes among western tourists.
What if there had been a communist victory in 1965.
Janma interviews Indonesia Matters.
The Indonesian way of death is too graphic.
The nature of the anti-communist massacres in Indonesia of 1965-66.
Whether there was a genocide in Indonesia in 1965 and what happened to the survivors.
Suharto: Let the People Speak, an informal poll of the Indonesian people.
Some examples of funny epitaphs for Suharto.
Fortune telling via sms on your hand phone.
Achmad Sudarsono ventures into the world of advice columns.
Indonesian stupidity, with quotes and examples.
Whether the state ideology Pancasila means anything to Indonesians.
White trash men in Indonesia, expats and English teachers.
Stories of cannibals and cannibalism in Sumatra and Papua.
Some peculiarities of language, and other oddities in Indonesia
What future for Indonesia, as 2008 approaches?
Tips for insulting someone, and appropriate comebacks, by Achmad.
Indonesian music talent, traditional and modern.
Religious fanaticism, Hitler, and monkeys.
Whether Indonesia should seek compensation and reparations from the Netherlands?
Indonesians becoming crazy for sex when overseas.
Tips for travelling and vacations in Bali.
The quality of tv in Indonesia and its influence on people.
Discrimination against minority groups in Indonesia.
Iamisaid on ordinary honesty and medical expertise in Indonesia.
Lobbying defined, and laws on political lobbying in Indonesia.
The tourist attractions of Indonesia, or Batam, are being closed down as a result of religious fervour.
Some of the pitfalls in owning an Indonesian house.
Corporal punishment in Indonesia, spanking and caning, and attempts to have it outlawed.
Why Aren’t Australians Learning Indonesian, A Response to Bahasa Indonesia, Australians Don’t Want to Learn Indonesian.
Whether the Jakarta Post newspaper is too left wing.
Questions about the philosophy of education in Indonesian schools.
Achmad worries that Indonesia’s U.F.O. technology will be lost to foreigners.
Questions about the youth of today in Indonesia and their sense of nationalism and purpose.
Indonesians have a body odor problem, in particular, smelly armpits.
A new Mojopahit Empire is on the horizon, with Australia as vassal state.
Metro TV’s Chinese-language news service, Xin Wen.
Ross wonders about Ramadan, lazy rich women, and why kampung girls are the best.
Ross asks whether the government is willing to bring some Muslims into the 21st century.
Ross complains that the global warming bandwagon has reached Jakarta.
Does Indonesia need a federal system, amid the separatist hysteria of late?
Governor Sutiyoso and anti-Australianism and street thuggery.
Visitor Askan asks what is up with Indonesians and Arabs and Israel.
The decline of fertility rates in Indonesia and the effects.
Hope For the Helpless? Overseas Workers Ordeals, by Ross.
Loudspeaker Abuse in the Mosques: should mosques be disciplined?
The PP 37, a new law granting pay rises to parliamentarians.
Poverty is the cause of terrorism, says a former Muhammadiyah chairman, not Islam.
On the “quality” of expatriates in Indonesia, or expats.
Multi-culturalism, or what Indonesians might call pluralism, is often spoken of as key to Indonesia’s make-up and stability.
The references to Islam given within Pope Benedict’s speech.
As globalization advances strange and interesting mixes of cultures, East and West, are produced.
The Emancipatory Islamic Network, write about the Crusades and get it all wrong.
On 9 May, 2006 the UN General Assembly elected Indonesia along with 46 other nations to the Human Rights council.
The similarities in the cases of the murders of two human rights activists, Munir Said Thalib in Indonesia and Somchai Neelaphaijit in Thailand.
Cases of political disappearances in the last years of the Suharto regime.
A listing of the best hotels in Jakarta, to suit any budget.
Dating Indonesian girls may not be for everyone.
The Arab-Muslim culture that has been brought to Indonesia is doomed.
The relationship between Indonesian democracy and Islam.
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