Hamzah Haz Bows Out

Hamzah Haz is bowing out of politics.

Hamzah Haz, the chairman of the Partai Persatuan Pembangunan (PPP) and a former vice president, says his political career is over and he would like to devote his time now to helping Muslim clerics.

He said on the 29th at the opening of a PPP meeting at Samarinda, East Kalimantan:

I'm done.
(Saya sudah selesai.)

On the question of who would …

Comment by oyan29: … that person to be Hamzah Haz is even more so considering …

Hamzah Haz on Islamic Parties

Hamzah Haz, the leader of the Islamist PPP and former vice president said that Indonesia is still in need of Islamic based parties because the majority of Indonesians are Muslims.

All our laws have a universal spirit. Every government policy [should be] infused with the spirit of Islam. (Semua undang-undang kita bersifat universal. Setiap kebijakan pemerintah yang dituangkan dalam …

Comment by Josh Jones: … politics of Mr. Haz.

Political Acronym List

Spoilt for choice in the 2009 elections, almost three dozen political parties to choose from, most with their own acronym.

34 political parties will be allowed to participate in the 2009 elections by the Electoral Commission (Komisi Pemilihan Umum, KPU), 16 of which are established parties, that is, they passed verification at least partly based on their performance in the 2004 …

Comment by Rambutan: … Matta and Fahri Hamzah for instance) and organisations. …

Habib Rizieq Shihab

Well-fed FPI head man Habib Rizieq has plenty of celebrity visitors to keep him company in police lock-up.

Rotund Front Pembela Islam (FPI) leader Habib Rizieq Shihab, arrested on June 4th for the FPI attack on a religious freedom rally in Jakarta on June 1st has kept in the news despite his imprisonment.

Famous Visitors

Habib has received a string of visitors, one of the …

Comment by Big White Infidel: What? No Hamzah Haz? No generals from TNI or …

Classic Literature Reading Lists

… any book of Gunter Grass as he was once a member of the Waffen-SS.

Chairil Anwar, Amir Hamzah, Sutan Takdir Alisyahbana

At school, Pram and other leftist writers and artists’ works are not listed in the national curriculum. Indonesian writers such as Chairil Anwar, Amir Hamzah, and Sutan Takdir Alisyahbana are not unfamiliar amongst students. But when Utuy Tatang Sontani, Sobron Aidit, Agam Whispi are asked to them, it is likely we would see the kids shaking their heads in …

Comment by spew-it-all: … Anwar, Amir Hamzah, and Sutan Takdir Alisyahbana, …

Konspirasi Yahudi

Hari Valentine dan hubungannya dengan persekutuan Yahudi.

Sumatra Barat

Ketua I MUI Sumatra Barat Buya Mas'oed Abidin mengeluh pada tanggal 12 Februari bahwa perayaan Hari Valentine adalah bukti kalau Indonesia semakin lama semakin tunduk akan budaya global asing:

Kegemaran tersebut perlu segera dihentikan, karena hal itu tidak cocok dengan budaya kita.

Dalam laporan asal …

Comment by mapia: … (no comment) HAMZAH itu solusi yang bagus. (no …

Jakarta Election Result

Ross is less than enthused about Fauzi Bowo's election as Jakarta governor.

The election result in Jakarta's gubernatorial vote on 8th August, with the establishment candidate Fauzi Bowo 's decisive victory, was not exactly surprising but it is important that outside observers should not interpret the strong challenge from Adang Daradjatun, a prominent member of a Muslim party, the …

Comment by Naga: … sympathiser (Hamzah Haz) and he can make a phone …

Kissing Women

… passionate or otherwise.

Irresistible.

The head of the PPP in Banjarnegara, Gus Hamzah, says Yulianto must be dismissed because he had disgraced the party, the PPP being Islamically based. In order to avoid being fired Yulianto had to make a formal apology, destroy copies of a video recording showing him kissing the tourist, and just generally explain himself and his actions.

Yulianto had already apologised but so far had refused to get rid of the "CD" recording. Deputy …

Repent or Reform

… political figures put at least some of the blame on the weakness of faith of Indonesians. Hamzah Haz of the PPP said on the 15th that all the disasters may be a warning from God, that God is telling His people to always keep Him in their thoughts and hearts and to obey all His commands and keep away from the things which He has made forbidden. republika

Hasyim Muzadi of the Nahdlatul Ulama (NU) advises the people to repent their sins and always ask for the help of God, given …

Insulting the President

Some of the laws against insulting the president were quashed by the Constitutional Court.

The Constitutional Court of Indonesia (Mahkamah Konstitusi, MK) on the 6th revoked a Dutch colonial era law that made insulting the leaders of the country a crime, in a tight 5-4 decision. Articles 134, 136, and 137 of the criminal code (KUHP) are now no longer in force. The majority opinion stated …

Comment by Dragonwall: … Jusuf Kalla, Hamzah Haz, Amien Rais you name them. …

Alfarini Eridani

Aa Gym 's new wife, Alvarini, or Alfarini Eridani.

This be she:

Joke.

Apparently this is her. Pretty lady.......

Alfarini Eridani. …

Comment by Benny: … Gym, Yahya Zaini, Hamzah Haz only 3 men 3 divide 70 …

Abdullah Aa Gym Gymnastiar

Charismatic Muslim preacher Abdullah "Aa Gym" Gymnastiar has taken a second wife.

Abdullah Gymnastiar, commonly referred to as Aa Gym, a hugely popular preacher and holy man, has shocked the nation, particularly its women, by choosing to exercise his right to take more than one wife. Not satisfied with long-term spouse Teteh Nini Gym three months ago married a former model from Bandung, …

Comment by the Moslem: … as rhoma irama, hamzah haz, and zainudin. His carreer …

Freehold Bails on Lapindo

… caused by the mudflow disaster at the Lapindo Brantas gas field in Sidoarjo, East Java.

Syahrir Hamzah, the president director of PT Asuransi Tugu, said that the consortium would pay about $9 million before the end of this year to Lapindo as part of the company's overall insurance cover of about $25 million.

We've already paid out a first claim worth $4.7 million on Nov. 8th.

He explained that the consortium would pay out another $5 million out in the middle of next …

National Pride

… and had made Indonesia lose its pride in the eyes of the United States, says parliamentarian Fahri Hamzah of the Partai Keadilan Sejahtera (PKS).

Indonesia was a big country, he said, big in both population and amount of natural resources, and the leaders of the nation should use this fact as a bargaining chip, and not bend over backwards for foreign leaders. Founding father of the nation, Mohammed Hatta, had stated that it were better the country be drowned at sea than let other powers …

Comment by Tomaculum: … But maybe Fahri Hamzah meant his pride and not the …

Al Qadariah

… Al Qadariah people are reported to have taken the decision in a meek spirit and their leader, Hamzah Igirisa, says he will abide by the decision and is prepared to be shepherded along to the right path by the MUI.

We take this fatwa as a warning and hope that people will stop bothering us now.

The Yayasan Alanggaya Al Qadariah has been in existence for six years and has about 1000 members and its main mosque is the Masjid Quba Baluntha Alanggaya Al Qadariah in Gorontalo town.

Enemies of Islam

Faith can overcome the enemies of Islam, says a preacher in Bogor.

Muslim cleric Ahmad Degel delivered some old time religion at his Idul Fitri sermon at the Bogor Botanical Gardens on the 24th, saying that faith was a powerful weapon indeed against the enemies of Islam, the countries of the West, because it put God in the Muslims' corner:

Besides sophisticated weapons, faith is the …

Comment by 1ndra: … sukun and ain for hamzah. Later this punctuation marks, …

Decline of Islamic Vote

Hamzah Haz says Muslims are less inclined to vote for Islamic parties now than in the past.

Haz, the chairman of the United Development Party (PPP) and former vice-president, says that before the New Order time Muslim parties won 48% of the vote but that by 2004 this had declined to 20%.

Haz presumably bases these views on the results for the 1955 elections in which Masyumi, a …

Tibo, et al. Execution

… Sulawesi police chief Badruddin Haiti, TNI general Arief Sampurno, regional attorney general Hamzah Tadjah, and Central Sulawesi governor Bandjela Paliudju attended. They also discussed security measures for the event.

Major General Arief Budi Sampurno said , at the meeting, that his men were prepared to provide back-up for the police should the security situation get out of hand. Badruddin Haiti said he hoped that people would understand that the law was supreme and that no …

Israel & Lebanon II

… aid and help maintain peace in the region. Chairman of the PPP and former vice president Hamzah Haz, said in Pangkalpinang:

If the government ask we are ready to send our men there and I feel that our party members are ready to do it.
(Kalau memang diminta pemerintah, kita siap mengirimkan relawan ke sana, dan saya rasa kader partai juga siap melakukan itu.)

Troops

The government in Jakarta does seem very willing to send some sort of Indonesian force to the area, …

Partai Persatuan Pembangunan Conference

… bisa bahu-membahu menyelesaikannya.)

While current party leader and former vice president, Hamzah Haz, said that the PPP had to be able to display the distinctive features of the Islamic faith better than other Islamically based parties.

Suryadharma Ali went on to say that the perceived conflict between Islam and the state ideology Pancasila was not relevant anymore and discussion of it should be avoided as it represented a waste of time and energy.

For the PPP the matter is …

2004 Election Results

… Husodo

17,392,931

14.6 %

5.
Hamzah Haz (PPP) - Agum Gumelar

3,569,861

3.0 %

Presidential Election, Second Round
September 20, 2004. Registered voters: 153,312,436. Votes cast 116,662,705, or 76.09%. Valid votes 114,257,054, or 97.93%.

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Susilo …

Wahabi & Wahhabism

The Justice Party-PKS is not a bringer of Saudi Arabian Wahabi Islam to Indonesia, says its leader.

The President of the Justice Party, Partai Keadilan Sejahtera (PKS), Tifatul Sembiring said in Aceh recently that his party was not Wahabi (the extremely strict form of Islam that is dominant in Saudi Arabia), as many accused of it being:

The PKS is clearly not Wahabi.

He said the …

Comment by Cukurungan: … that something hazardous, you still want to try? …

World News Coverage

… great extent in most of them.

Click the red dots next to newspaper names to activate.

Comment by Berlian Biru: … enjoyable haze of Guinness and tobacco smoke. …

Bali Culture

… if trouble erupts again?
Rayner.

[rss]This is a post from the Indonesia Matters website.[/rss]

Comment by rayner: … drain with all the hazards that entails. Most of those …

Atheist Threat

Young atheists on the internet, and eradicating atheism and communism in Indonesia.

Governor of North Sumatra, Syamsul Arifin , said on 8th October at an occasion marking Pancasila Day that all elements of the nation must continually fight against and eradicate atheist beliefs among the people.

Atheism, which seeks to erase Pancasila and which once threatened the nation in the guise …

Comment by Barry prima: … godhead, as does Ghazzali between the vicegerent and …

Dutch War Crimes

… from survivors (Dutch-Indonesian-Sundanese). Streaming media, requires broadband internet access.

Comment by purba negoro: … time Oink-Gal aka Shazza, Kathloiy-eeen, or …

Green & Energy Solutions

… effective solutions that will benefit the farmer as well as the planet.

The second source of haze is from palm plantations. They use fire because it is a very cheap way to clear land. This group will only be deterred by rigid enforcement of the law. First offences should be dealt with by delivering a financial penalty many times higher than the cost they would have to pay if they cleared land in a less environmentally destructive way. Second offences should be dealt with by …

Feudal Ways & Culture

What Indonesia needs is to dump its old feudal ways and culture, says Soetrisno Bachir.

At a seminar discussing Indonesian culture in modern times Partai Amanat Nasional (PAN) politician Soetrisno Bachir attempted to answer the question:

Can Indonesia become a first rank country, able to compete with the world and provide prosperity for its people?

Bachir said this was unlikely …

Comment by perseus: … lords in a haphazard way - has these days been …

Maid Abuse

Discussion on abuse of Indonesian maids in Singapore and Malaysia, and elsewhere.

Comments split off from Dedi Mulyadi …

Comment by Purba Negoro: … about. William Hazlitt. We could play this game for …

Subversive Groups & Patriotism

… who are not fanatics but are usually very nationalistic?

With elections next year, this deserves scrutiny.

Comment by perseus: … Ossetia and Abkhazia have Russia helping them so they …

Niwatakawaca, Rahwana, Cakil & Pasopati

… http://oai.dtic.mil/

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C-802

Comment by Purba Negoro: … and to assess the hazards of flying objects (which ranged …

Religion & Religiosity

Rima says religion and religiosity are to blame for much of Indonesia's, and the world's, troubles.

Why religion doesn't matter at all

Once upon a time, Indonesia was well-known in the world as a nation of peace, tolerance and religious pluralism. Other countries even made us their example, a country full of people with various religious beliefs, from various ethnic and language …

Comment by timdog: … from rapacious Ghaznivad plunderers of times past; Shia …

My Friend the Fanatic

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

My Friend the Fanatic - Travels with an Indonesian Islamist tells the story of Indian journalist Sadanand Dhume's journey across Indonesia and his meetings with political, cultural, and religious figures in 2004, and is written from the standpoint that the country is being torn between two forces, …

Comment by Shloka: … for millennia. Ghazni wasn’t a new phenomenon for the …

Insiden Monas, FPI & AKKBB

Video tindak kekerasan Front Pembela Islam saat parade kebebasan beragama di Jakarta, dan tanggapan Presiden Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono.

Video pemberitaan serangan Front Pembela Islam (FPI) terhadap Aliansi Kebangsaan Kebebasan Beragama dan Berkeyakinan (AKKBB) yang berkumpul di Silang Monas, Jakarta menandai peringatan hari Kesaktian Pancasila tanggal 1 Juni. Sekitar 200 orang anggota FPI …

Comment by M. Sejuki: … berarti dengan ghazwul fikri (perang pemikiran) yang …

Conspiracy Theories

Conspiracy theories among opinion leaders in Sumatra, American-Zionist and British conspiracies.

Zionist Conspiracies

The President of LBH Perjuangan Hukum dan Politik, Aldian Pinem, said in Medan, North Sumatra, in early April that the Geert Wilders short movie " Fitna " was an attempt to create the impression that all violence in the world was caused by Muslims.

This was not …

Comment by khalid: … My response: Hazrat Mirza Ghulam Ahmad (founder of …

Modern Day Witch Hunt

… was no one left to speak out.

Stop the persecution of Jamaah Ahmadiyah members! Defend Ahmadiyah!

Comment by timdog: … of the Turkic Ghaznavids. What’s more, Pakistanis …

Ahmadiyah (Nearly) Banned

A formal banning of the unorthodox Muslim sect Jamaah Ahmadiyah becomes more likely.

A Step Closer

Team Pakem (Badan Koordinasi Pengawas Aliran Kepercayaan Masyarakat (Bakor Pakem)), the body that oversees (unorthodox) religious activity in Indonesia, has recommended that all activities of the sect Jemaah Ahmadiyah Indonesia (JAI) be stopped and the JAI dissolved.

Wisnu Subroto of …

Comment by Rene Wadlow: … of the movement -Hazrat Mirza Ghulam Ahmad who is …

International Investors: Harm or Help

Whether foreign investment in Indonesia benefits the people.

Health minister Siti Fadilah Supari warned on 11th April in South Kalimantan (Borneo) that regional governments in Indonesia should be on their guard whenever dealing with international investment proposals.

Siti Fadilah Supari

According to Siti these things should be considered by provincial governors and regents in …

Comment by TheWrathOfGrapes: … of temasek - khazanah were caught off guard. …

How to Get a Bule Man

A new book giving advice to Indonesian women on how to find an expat man, How to Catch Mr Bule .

Published by Gramedia Pustaka Utama and written by one Erlinawati How to Catch Mr Bule provides tips and advice for Indonesian women on how to snare a foreign man for romance and likely marriage, and how to manage the relationship.

How to Catch Mr Bule.

The book discusses …

Comment by Patrick: … then one turned hazel and a few months later the other. …

Representative Democracy & Islam

… up until Sohearto period under new order regime in which Soeharto also believed that Islam was a hazard for Democracy Pancasila. This subsequently goes toward the popular policy by which Soeharto imposed with regard to political party so-called Asas-Tunggal in which all political parties (GOKAR, PPP and PDI) These three parties were as a result of Unified policy (FUSI) which was imposed By Soeharto to control all political power in Indonesia. It is imbued because Soeharto would support …

Fitna by Geert Wilders

… could be a possible date. For anyone interested bookmark www.fitnathemovie.com in your favorites.

Comment by barry prima: … ,Ibn Arabi.Al Ghazzali. The moors and other Islamic …

Female Genital Mutilation

Foreign efforts to eradicate female genital mutilation.

United Nations

On February 27th ten United Nations agencies pledged to engage in a renewed effort to eliminate female genital mutilation (FGM), or female circumcision , within a generation.

UN Deputy Secretary General Asha-Rose Migiro said:

If we can come together for a sustained push, female genital mutilation can vanish …

Comment by Purba Negoro: … Jews: Ashkenazi Khazars? Bing! Brave German Christian …

Communist Victory

What if the Indonesian Communist Party (PKI) had taken over in 1965.

Hypothetical: What Would've Happened if the Communists Took Over in 1965?

Halo Friend,

Time for a "hypothetical", an exercise in imagination, fiction and history. What would have happened if the Indonesian Communist Party (PKI) had emerged victorious from the events of September 30, 1965?

I'd like to invite …

Comment by pj_bali: … http://newafifkhazin.multiply.com/journal/item/359

Israeli Palestinian Conflict

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

Visiting Israel

In early December of 2007 five representatives of Indonesian Islamic organisations, including Muhammadiyah and Nahdlatul Ulama, travelled to Israel and met its president, Shimon Peres, their trip sponsored by the Simon Wiesenthal Center and the LibForAll Foundation.

Shimon Peres said he was …

Comment by Arie Brand: … from the Khazars, a Turkic people that created a …

Ahmadiyya

Ahmadiyah makes changes to its beliefs and avoids being banned by the government.

Continued from Religious Intolerance and Banning Islamic Sects .

No Ban

Pakem (Pengawas Aliran Kepercayaan Masyarakat, Overseers of the Peoples' Beliefs), made up of representatives of the Attorney General's Office, police, the State Intelligence Agency and the Religious Affairs Ministry, …

Comment by Abu Khurshid: … one book of Hazrat Mirza Ghulam Ahmad of Qadian. …

White Men

… Bule had started the night wondering how it had come to this. Now, through the beer-fuelled haze, Bule, a miner in his 50s, could only feel a vague sense of gratitude he still had a place in the world.

He tramples the feet of a rag-clad six-year old child. He collides with a 60-year old beggar squatting amidst the rats.

The bar girls loved him. He was a regular, so drunk and careless he was never capable of using the services he paid for. Snoring his way into a perpetual daily …

Future Predictions

… legislation available.

Industrial pollution and a lack of capacity for the recycling of hazardous waste are other causes of concern.

The environmental sector is plagued by weak enforcement of environmental legislation, contradictory legislation at central, provincial and district levels and light sanctions for those breaking the law.

Indonesia is vulnerable to climate change. Climate change may lead to an increase in extreme weather events, sea level rise and …

Aburizal Bakrie

Aburizal Bakrie is Indonesia's richest man.

Forbes Asia list of Indonesia's richest men and families, the top ten: forbes

Aburizal Bakrie and family (Bakrie Group): $5.4 billion

Sukanto Tanoto (April and Asian Agri): $4.7 billion

R. Budi Hartono: $3.14 billion

Michael Hartono (Budi and Michael Hartono, part owners of Djarum and BCA): $3.08 billion

Eka …

Comment by Dragonwall: … were thought to be hazardous to them as they were built …

Poor People

… "If you want others to be happy, practice compassion.
If you want to be happy, practice compassion."

Comment by iamisaid: … “These are hazards in society and hopefully …

Morality Police

Some fear the rise of a morality police.

Article 22 of the revised draft for the anti pornography law ( Rancangan Undang Undang Anti Pornografi dan Pornoaksi ( RUU APP )) states:

Everyone has a role in preventing the production, distribution, and consumption of pornography.

Some groups, such as:

International Conference for Religion and Peace (ICRP)
Aliansi …

Comment by iamisaid: … her prancing haphazardly around, without an artistic …

Bahai

… leaders. Four others refused to change back to Islam, while the seventh did not turn up. antara

Comment by Susan: … Muslim. As al-Ghazali has shown in the *Incoherence of …

Smoking Sin

Whether smoking is sinful in Islam.

In a country where cigarette production is high, providing a living for millions, and consumption also high, the Clerics' Council, Majelis Ulama Indonesia (MUI), is having a difficult time deciding whether to issue a fatwa against smoking, or make it haram within Islam.

Maruf Amin of the MUI said on 25th October that the fate of the farmers who grow …

Comment by Arema: … knew smoking is hazardous to your body ie health and …

Al-Qiyadah Al-Islamiyah

Mini theocracy in Bogor and Padang.

MUI Fatwa

On 4th October the Indonesian Ulema Council (MUI) issued a fatwa against the "Al-Qiyadah Al-Islamiyah" sect, which is led by Ahmad Moshaddeq, real name Salam.

MUI Chairman, Ma'ruf Amin said the sect had grown rapidly since 2000 and that since July 23rd 2007 Ahmad Moshaddeq had been claiming to be a prophet after he spent 40 days and …

Comment author: chazza

Comment by chazza: … himself to be Allah!!

Indonesian Women

Laws that discriminate against women.

The recent 39th meeting of the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW) in New York recommended Indonesia revoke all laws that are viewed as biased against women, said the Minister for Women's Empowerment, Meutia Hatta, on 26th September.

Although Indonesia ratified the Convention 23 years ago Meutia …

Comment by dewaratugedeanom: … perform mufkhaza (thighing) with little children, …

Women in Mosques

Women are not allowed in the Sultan mosque in Ternate.

Women & Their Unholy Voices

While almost all mosques in Indonesia allow women to come inside and pray, although they have to sit behind the men, the Sultan mosque in Ternate, North Maluku (Maluku Utara, Malut) ( map ) is unique in forbidding women from entering.

Djafar, a local figure, explains:

Only men can pray in …

Comment by Korrill: … to King Ahaz of Judah that his royal line would …

Batam Nightlife

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

Chairman of the Clerics' Council, Majelis Ulama Indonesia (MUI), Ma'ruf Amin urged the owners of bars, discos, and probably brothels on the holiday island of Batam to close down entirely while Muslims observe the fasting month of Ramadan.

They make plenty of profit over 11 months, it's not too much to ask them to close …

Comment by Wayne: … the quran, I would hazard a guess that you are an bored …

Sharia Application

Sharia can be applied without making Indonesia an Islamic state.

Fuad Amsyari of the Crescent Star Party, Partai Bulan Bintang (PBB), said in Jakarta on 21st August that the basic form of the state, Pancasila, did not need to be changed in order that sharia be applied. Instead, every law that was made could incorporate Islamic law.

It was a mistake to think that sharia application …

Comment by Ihaknt: … Indo…look at the hazy air not to mention politics!!

Sexy Dangdut

Dangdut dancing and singing in Cianjur for independence day.

The Clerics' Council (Majelis Ulama Indonesia (MUI)) of Cianjur in West Java has issued a fatwa forbidding on-stage dangdut singing and dancing during celebrations for Indonesian independence day on August 17th. The fatwa firmly makes haram in particular the type of dangdut dancing which involves sexy or erotic movements, or any …

Comment by dewaratugedeanom: … Perform mufkhaza (rubbing ones penis between the …

Learning Islam

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

The minister of religion, Maftuh Basyuni said on 4th August that Islam did not teach violence or radicalism, and radicalism could not be allowed to flourish Indonesia because most people were opposed to it and it had no basis in the Quran. He advised people to not only read the Quran a lot but to learn it and understand …

Comment by Mohammed Khafi: … to Dawud: Fahazamoohum bi-ithni Allahi waqatala …

Climate Crisis Hits Jakarta

… non-rich Jakartans. Only 200 (JP report 19/7) out of between 12 and 18 million - nobody really knows.

Comment by Nenek Sihir: … climate change in haze and smog-choked Indonesia - the …

Heretic Outreach

The government reaches out to heretics.

The head of the Bengkulu office of the Department of Religion (Depag), Mukhtaridi Baidjuri, has invited any members of non-orthodox Islamic groups to give up their strange beliefs and return to the fold of government approved Islam .

We are inviting them to return to the correct teachings, ie., those based on the Quran and hadiths of Muhammad. …

Comment by Shiva: … The fatwa of Mufkhaza …

Book Censorship

… and Judaism: Dorothy Kavanaugh (Mason Crest, Jordan); Murder in the Name of Allah: Hazrat Mirza, Tahir Ahmad (Lutterworth Press, Great Britain); dan, The New Paths in Muslim Evangelism, Evangelical, Approaches to Contextualization (Baker Book House, US).

2008 Economy

The parliament's forecasts for economic conditions in 2008.

Commission XI of the parliament for Banking and Finance has agreed on a number of forecasts for the year 2008, these being:

6.5-6.9% economic growth
6.0-6.5% inflation
7.0-8.0% interest rate on 3-month SBI's
9,100-9,400 rupiah per dollar

Commission XI's target for economic growth is slightly less …

Comment by Dragonwall: … for Health Hazard and this is the risk. Cost of …

Nationalization

On nationalizing foreign businesses.

One of the four deputy heads of the People's Consultative Assembly (MPR), AM Fatwa, on 4th May called for the nationalization of vital industries in Indonesia such as the oil, gas, and mining industries.

A.M. Fatwa, who has a professional background in the religious organisations of Muhammadiyah and Majelis Ulama Indonesia (MUI), echoed the oft-heard …

Comment by Sputjam: … behind the annual haze festival. Huge areas jungles being …

Shia Islam

Pressure on Shia Islamic groups in Indonesia is growing.

On 10th April in Sampang, Madura island, East Java, the home of a Shiite cleric was attacked by a mob of more than 100 people. The attackers carried sharp weapons and attempted to enter the cleric's home but were prevented from doing so by police. No-one was hurt. metrotv

Still in East Java, but on the mainland, on 20th April …

Comment by Asad Ahmed: … moved to KUFA by HAZRAT ALI (R.A.), where so called …

IPDN, Institut Pemerintahan Dalam Negeri

Violence and sex at the Institut Pemerintahan Dalam Negeri.

The Institute of Public Administration (IPDN) campus in Jatinangor, Sumedang, West Java, the training ground for the civil servants of the internal affairs ministry, has been rocked by two scandals of late, one serious and the other frivolous.

On April 3rd Cliff Muntu , a junior student from North Sulawesi, died after …

Comment by Marie Antoinette: … although I suspect hazing may have been the real reason. …

Anti Islam Video

Police are hunting down the makers of an anti Islam video.

In Batu, Malang, East Java, a recording was apparently made using a handycam and then copied onto VCD format by a Christian student group called Lembaga Pelayanan Mahasiswa Indonesia (LPMI) at the Hotel Asida between 17-20 December 2006 which is said to contain scenes which insult Islam in some uncertain way.

The Lembaga …

Comment by Suhada: … and economic haphazard before us that demand our energy …

Sidoarjo Mudflow

… the (mud volcano) alone. The embankment is dangerous. If it collapses, it could create an intense hazard.

The latest plan to drop chains of concrete balls inside the main geyser to slow down the spewing mud is an interesting experiment. But again it's unlikely to work.

______________

March 6th 2007.

The head of the Geologists Alliance of Indonesia (IAGI) of 1973-1975, Koesoemadinata, has protested the result of the international workshop on the Lapindo mudflow in Sidoarjo, East …

Comment by Mohammed Khafi: … zones are a hazard in any unexplored area and …

Jakarta Chinese

Governor Sutiyoso of Jakarta wants a fair deal for the city's Chinese.

On the occasion of Chinese New Year, or Imlek, Governor Sutiyoso promised to make it easier for the city's Chinese to obtain official documents, such as birth certificates, family cards, local residency papers, and even citizenship, while visiting the Wihara Dharma Bakti temple in Glodok on the 18th. tempo

"Bang …

Comment by Sputjam: … there unless the haze due to forest fire begins and …

Habib Umar

A visiting cleric from Yemen worries about the state of the Indonesian Muslim clerisy, and Abu Bakar Bashir.

The head of a delegation of eleven Muslim clerics from the region of Hadramaut in Yemen, from whence many of those of Arab descent in Indonesia hail from, Habib Umar bin Hafiz bin Sheikh Abu Bakar, said during a meeting with hundreds of his Indonesian counterparts at the Lirboyo …

Comment by Colson: … A in Bush-times is hazardous for people with the outspoken …

Student Sex Videos

… is connected with competition between the various centres of higher learning in the town.

A hazy scene from the "Video Mesum ABG".

He says the police have known about the video since October 2006, and it has gone under various humorous titles including ' Jateng Membara ' (Central Java Sizzles) and ' Bra Merah ' (Red Bra). Mustain said the people in the video were not students at his institution.

The head of the Kediri police, Isbari, says his men are on the job. He said a group …

Mosque Loudspeaker Noise

Parvita writes on the topic: Loudspeaker Abuse in the Mosques: should mosques be disciplined?

If you live in Jakarta and look around some of the housing pockets in the area, how many mosques do you find in 5 kilometer radius? Have you ever seen a mosque without a loudspeaker? Have you ever had trouble sleeping because the mosque(s) was/were so loud, not only during adzan?

I stayed for …

Comment by Bas: … or kill the Hazan or the pseudo Hazzan zho zas …

Hizbut Tahrir

Hizbut Tahrir Indonesia (HTI) champions polygamy and rails against gender equality and domestic violence laws.

Aminah Yunus Rasyid of the Medan, North Sumatra branch of HTI said on the 19th of December during a demonstration outside the mayor's office that the ideology of gender equality was a part of the trend towards liberalisation originating in the west that was being forced on …

Comment by Mohammed Khafi: … ed-Din by Ghazali, Beirut, Vol II, Kitab Adab …

Apartment Buying

Foreigners may soon be able to buy apartments.

The government, says the Jakarta Post, seems likely to issue a regulation next year that will allow foreigners a restricted right to own some forms of property, such as apartments.

Indonesian Chamber of Commerce and Industry (Kadin) chairman Muhammad S. Hidayat said that it remains unclear precisely what types of property are involved, …

Comment by Achmad Sudarsono: … “Hazzzaaa Gaaahn Maaaiteee !!! Yew …

Irwandi Yusuf & Muhammad Nazar

… PAN and PKS with 140,792 votes (12,5%), Iskandar Husein and M Saleh Manaf with 79,743 votes (7%), Ghazali Abbas Adan and Salahuddin Al Fata with 71,172 votes (6,3%), Tamlicha Ali and Harmen Nuriqmar with 50,152 votes (4,5%), and hopelessly unpopular are Djali Yusuf and RA Syaukas Rahmatillah with 39,652 votes (3,5%).

The KIP has yet to receive ballot boxes from Sabang, Aceh Jaya, Bireuen, East Aceh and Langsa. GAM candidates are expected to do well in these areas. antara

Meanwhile …

Nuclear Power Plants

The government plans to build nuclear power plants on Java and Madura.

Research and Technology minister, Kusmayanto Kadiman, says that up to four nuclear power stations can be built on the Muria Peninsula on the northern coast of Central Java province:

On this 600-hectare area, you can easily accommodate four nuclear power plants and if each has a capacity between 1,000 and 1,500 …

Comment by Karlira Kanakahuko: … another disastrous hazards hits Indonesia. Indonesia will …

Sarah Azhari

… crime in the next four months she will then be forced to serve her original time, says official Hazniwarti Nasution, who appears to be making things up as he goes along. kompas

The winning smile that keeps Sarah Azhari out of the slammer.

Sarah's family has a history of run-ins with the law. Her older brother Ibrahim Salahuddin, or Ibra, Azhari is currently serving fifteen years at the Cipinang jail in Jakarta for drug offences. kompas

Expats

… Certainly some home truths there, but the "Most of them..." part may not stand up to analysis.

Comment by Janma: … but now I’m hazarding an uneducated guess that you …

Discrimination Against Chinese

Lee Kuan Yew says there is systematic discrimination against Indonesians of Chinese descent.

The former president of Singapore, as part of a one-hour address at the Raffles Forum , held in conjunction with the IMF-World Bank Meeting in Singapore, reportedly said that the ethnic Chinese minority population in Indonesia, and Malaysia:

Our neighbors both have problems with their …

Comment by Molisan Tono: Whazzup guys, just back on earth. …

Church Intimidation

A Muslim mob entered the grounds of a Catholic church in Solo, Central Java.

In the city of Surakarta, or Solo, on the morning of the 18th, the members of a group called the Jamaah Islam travelled in a convoy of dozens of motorbikes and arrived at the Santo Petrus church and entered its grounds. While there some of the young men gave speeches condemning the papal speech in Germany which …

Comment by Tomaculum: … Conservative, Hazidic, Karaite etc). Hassan, in …