Population growth continues to slow while the issue of family planning has come to occupy the minds of presidents and clerics alike.

Abortion is permissible in rape cases but not in pregnancies resulting from adulterous liasons, says the MUI.

Hundreds of Muslims demonstrated in Cirebon, West Java, over the appointment of a new police chief, because of his "religious background".

A Muslim cleric was beaten to death by a mob because of his teachings.

Another Muhammad cartoon controversy in Denmark has stirred ill-will among some Indonesian Muslims.

The banging of drums, and Ramadan fasting slackers, are on the minds of the Pamekasan branch of the Majelis Ulama Indonesia.

Theocracy in action in West Sumatra as the city government of Padang teams up with the Majelis Ulama Indonesia (MUI), and the mob, to close down a mosque used by the heretics of the Jamiyatul Islamiyah.

Pope Benedict's speech and the muted reaction of Indonesian Muslim leaders.

The Majelis Ulama Indonesia (MUI) advises what should not appear on television screens during the upcoming "holy month" of Ramadan.

Ma'ruf Amin of the Majelis Ulama Indonesia says that competing schools of thought within Islam have to be accepted with tolerance except when they are heretical.

The Nahdlatul Ulama (NU) is assembling the troops to combat the proselytizing activity of hardline Islamic groups, and also liberal ones.

The death penalty receives continued support from conservative Islamic groups.

The Ulema Council, Majelis Ulama Indonesia (MUI), says female circumcision is necessary for Muslims.

Cornelius Fabianus Tibo, Dominggus da Silva, and Marinus Riwu are due to be executed fifteen minutes after midnight, Saturday 12th August.

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

The Nahdlatul Ulama's fatwa against television gossip shows.

The middle eastern crisis and Indonesian reactions to it.

Sexual immorality is the enemy of not only Muslims in Indonesia but also Christians, says a senior religious leader.

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

Politically minded Muslims are urged not to keep regretting the fact that the state does not have an explicitly Islamic basis.

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.

The Majelis Ulama Indonesia (MUI) says there are no regional regulations that apply Islamic law.

The Majelis Ulama Indonesia (MUI) says the government's plans to disband radical groups such as the Front Pembela Islam (FPI) and Forum Betawi Rempug (FBR) may be evidence the state seeks to protect the sinful.

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

The Indonesian Ulema Council has issued 19 new fatwas.

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.

A leader of the Nahdlatul Ulama says hundreds of his organisation's mosques have been taken over by fundamentalists.

Former presidents of the country are not immune from the attention of hardline Islamic groups.

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

The campaign to make the island of Madura a stand-alone province, separate from East Java, continues to gather steam. It finds most of its support from conservative Islamic groups and figures.

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.

The question of the listing of religious affiliation national identity cards (KTP).

The municipality of Tangerang, an industrial satelite city of Jakarta with about 3 million unfortunate inhabitants, has passed a number of draconian laws against prostitution and drinking which have caused more than a few complaints.

The Indonesian Survey Institute has released the results of a survey that gauged the prevalance of support for ideas associated with hardline or fundamentalist Islam among Muslims and others in the country. Behind the moderate mask it seems there may be a harder faced complexion among Indonesian Muslims.

Tons of porn news today, get yer porn here.

The hunt for blasphemers of Islam goes on, this time on Batam island, a favourite destination of tourists and foreign investors alike. But do the foreigners who plough their money into this place know what kind of system they are supporting?

A proposal by the government Family Planning body to install two condom vending machines in west Sumatra province has met with the stern resistance of the local branch of the Majelis Ulama Indonesia (MUI), Indonesian Ulema Council.

Ahmadiyah homes attacked in Lombok.

Stop Press! First edition of Playboy out!

Wer’e not big fans of pornography here but Playboy is typical of one kind of porn that is fairly innocuous. I’m sure someone could make a case that, in general, soft porn leads one to harder things but it never happened to your scribe.

The case of Lia Eden, a cult leader on trial for insulting Islam. If it weren't serious it would be funny.