Lady Gaga banned from Jakarta, unlike similar "controversial" performers.

The ample bosom of singer Dewi Persik causes another national controversy; Dewi threatened with prison time and an FPI home visit.

The world's most inspiring 'tweeter' is Fahira Idris it seems; her battles with FPI leader Habib Rizieq.

Constitutional Court hears case on free interpretation of religions, a human right or recipe for anarchy.

Murderous menstruating zombies in soft-porn horror flick "Hantu Puncak Datang Bulan".

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

Monitoring Ramadan mosque sermons in the war on terrorism.

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

The Front Pembela Islam are back in action, raiding places and publicly shaming sinners.

Arrests of dozens of Front Pembela Islam and Komando Laskar Islam members in Jakarta, and forced closures of FPI branches in central and eastern Java.

Video of "firebrand" FPI/Front Pembela Islam preacher Ahmad Sobri Lubis advocating murder.

Church services in malls, people in West Java are flocking to shopping malls in order to pray.

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

The experts say soft Islam is sweeping the country, not hard Islam.

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

The Wahidiyah movement is attacked in Tasikmalaya.

Zarima Mirafsur enlists the help of the FPI.

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

A hospital in Bandung that banned nurses from wearing headscarves is confronted by a radical Muslim group.

The trial of Playboy editor Erwin Arnada.

Habib Rizieq of the Islam Defenders' Front says it is religiously permissible to murder George Bush.

George Bush has some support in Indonesia after all, the Laskar Merah Putih.

The FPI, Islam Defenders' Front, are protesting apparent plans by the Defence department to buy Israeli aircraft.

The International Religious Freedom Report 2006 by the American Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor.

The government plans to revise the freedom to demonstrate law, in an effort to reduce instances of mob violence.

A survey says over a third of Indonesian Muslims desire an Islamic state, while half don't, among other things.

Abu Bakar Baasyir says one of the bombs used in the 2002 Bali bombings was a nuclear device.

An overview of the tolerance situation in Indonesia today.

Putri Indonesia Nadine Chandra says she is ready to be questioned by police over the bikini scandal.

Forty-two percent of people do not want those of other faiths to build houses of worship in their neighbourhoods, says a survey.

The plans of some militant Muslims to go to fight in Lebanon and the government's and others' reactions to them.

While Depok heads down the road of instituting strict morality laws two candidates for mayor of Jakarta say sharia is not on the agenda for the national capital.

The chairman of the Ulema Council, the Majelis Ulama Indonesia (MUI), has asked the government to ban Playboy magazine.

The legal manouverings of the Islamic Defenders Front become even more bizarre as famous singer Krisdayanti is reported to the police for appearing in an advertisment in the third edition of Playboy.

The Miss Universe contestant from Indonesia, Nadine Chandrawinata, has strutted about in a bikini, to the displeasure of some.

Muslim political groups are taking a keen interest in events in Israel and Lebanon.

As the third edition of Indonesian Playboy comes out two men from the Islamic Defenders Front, FPI, go on trial for an instance of their earlier battle with the magazine.

Two models, Joanna Alexandra and Fla Priscilla, who appeared in the second edition of Indonesian Playboy have been reported to the police.

Islamic Defenders Front, FPI, chairman Habib Riziq cancels plans to attend an event due to fear of being attacked.

Ex-president Abdurrahman "Gus Dur" Wahid has been reported to the police for insulting Islam.

There are some who fear that an Indonesian Islamic state is imminent.

The government appears willing to better deal with extremist thuggery.

The Governor of Jakarta, Sutiyoso, says that radical groups in the city need to be reined in.

Sinta Nuriyah Wahid, the wife of former president Abdurrahman Wahid, is suing the Betawi Brotherhood Forum (FBR) for slandering women.

The police are likely to take the question of banning the Islamic Defenders Front, FPI, to the parliament.

Pressure on the government and police to disband the FPI, Islamic Defenders Front is growing as the FPI and parts of the Nahdlatul Ulama are engaged in a running battle.

News on a recent mini epidemic of raids by the Islamic Defenders Front, FPI, Front Pembela Islam.

A review of recent news on the pornography and morality bill as thousands of Muslims rallied in Jakarta in support of it yesterday.

Guest writer Sarawut Pratoomraj discusses the similarities in the cases of the murders of two human rights activists, Munir Said Thalib in Indonesia and Somchai Neelaphaijit in Thailand.

The growing application of sharia based laws in the province of South Sulawesi, and elsewhere, is bound up in the role of a group called the Preparatory Committee for the Application of Islamic Laws.