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.

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.

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

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

An overview of the tolerance situation in Indonesia today.

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.

Indonesia remains on the "Watch List" in the United States Commission on International Religious Freedom report for 2006.

The leader of the East Java regency of Banyuwangi has been accused of blasphemy.

The Islamic Defenders Front, FPI, are concerned about the problem of human refuse in the city of Depok, specifically dangdut dancers and singers such as Inul Daratista.

Azyumardi Azra talks on the increasing prevalence of mob action and how the government and police seem unwilling to stop it.

The city of Depok near Jakarta has been led by the Islamist PKS, Prosperous Justice Party (Partai Keadilan Sejahtera), for 100 days now. Their record in this time is coming under increasing attack.

A group of liberal Muslim leaders said at a conference on Saturday that the prevalence of mob rule threatened to cause the break-up of the country.

Andhara Early, formerly a little known TV presenter, has made a good career move in her choice to bare not quite all in the first edition of Indonesian Playboy.

The Islamic Defenders Front, FPI, have found new meaning in their lives with the publication of an Indonesian version of Playboy magazine.

The first Indonesian version of Playboy magazine came out today. Despite the fact that it does not contain nudity and is not any more raunchy than other established magazines its publication has met with much opposition.

A look at some of the current attitudes towards Australia of prominent Indonesians in the wake of the granting of temporary visas to Papuan refugees and the subsequent cartoon wars.

Bandung is in West Java province and West Java has the reputation of being a fairly strict place in terms of the prevailing interpretations of Muslim beliefs and practises.

The city of Bandung in west Java has seen, since 2004, the forced closing of about 25 churches by Muslim bigots, mainly the Islamic Defenders Front, whether working alone, or in cooperation with a bigot umbrella organisation called the Anti Apostasy Movement (AGAP). Yesterday two more churches in Bandung were targeted, the Kasih Anugerah Church and the Bethel Indonesia Church.