A new round of fatwas from the MUI, sperm donation, organ donation, sex change operations.

Impatient people in West Java province who can't wait for the banning of the Ahmadiyah sect.

Some fear the rise of a morality police.

Conducting Muslim worship services in Indonesian, rather than Arabic, remains invalid, and illegal, says NU boss Hasyim Muzadi.

Another new political party, the Partai Kebangkitan Nasional Ulama (PKNU), a split off from the PKB.

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

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

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.

A survey of Indonesian attitudes to America and Americans has been released showing a marked improvement in such attitudes in the wake of the tsunami relief efforts and despite the ongoing war in Iraq and other perceived problem issues.

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.