Constitutional court head Jimly Asshiddiqie on harmonising Islamic law and Indonesian law.

Indonesia supports UN Security Council Resolution 1747 against Iran's nuclear program, and many are upset.

Hasyim Muzadi plans to cool the Sunni vs Shia conflict in Iraq.

Fourteen people have died in Poso during shoot-outs with anti-terrorist police.

Disaster prone Indonesia is populated by people weak in faith, or weak in honesty, depending on your view.

Internet porn sites should be blocked by the government, say religious leaders.

Central Java intends to introduce a law governing the collection of zakat.

Muslim extremists and radicals misunderstand their religion, says a senior cleric.

Hamzah Haz is bowing out of politics.

Television stations show too many soap operas with stories of romance in high schools, says a religious leader.

Calls are growing for the banning of American wrestling shows on television.

Investment and international relations could be harmed by sharia laws, says a Euro MP.

Hasyim Muzadi of Nahdlatul Ulama (NU) worries about the suicide bomber trend.

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

The Communion of Churches in Indonesia (PGI) recently held a seminar in which participants voiced their complaints about creeping sharia in the provinces.

Indonesian Muslims celebrated Idul Fitri on different days, due to disputes among Muslim groups, and the government.

Crime and prostitution are said to increase during the month of Ramadan.

The Nahdlatul Ulama is complaining of restrictions on the amount of time that can be given over to Islamic religious instruction in schools.

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

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

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

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

Maria Anshor of the Fatayat Nahdlatul Ulama says radical Islamic groups in Indonesia are an insignificant minority but that they threaten womens' rights.

A proposed widening of the scope of anti-blasphemy laws could see atheists prosecuted.

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.

Members of the Nahdlatul Ulama (NU) are threatening to boycott television, unless they get their way on the gossip show issue.

Hasyim Muzadi warns the Islamic faithful to be on guard against weird religious teachings.

The Partai Kebangkitan Bangsa (PKB) seeks to broaden its base, IPO style.

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

The Nahdlatul Ulama's fatwa against television gossip shows.

The north Jakarta branch of the Nahdlatul Ulama has issued an ultimatum to places which provide access to prostitutes and gambling.

The middle eastern crisis and Indonesian reactions to it.

The Nahdlatul Ulama (NU) have reaffirmed their committment to the secular state, among other goings-on at their national conference in Surabaya.

Hasyim Muzadi of the Nahdlatul Ulama (NU) says Islamic boarding schools are not breeding grounds for terrorists.

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

Hasyim Muzadi of the Nahdlatul Ulama (PBNU) says his organisation should act as a bridge linking Islam to the West, but only the European part of the West.

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

The government appears willing to better deal with extremist thuggery.

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.

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.

A Christian foundation in Surabaya, East Java, reaches out to the masses.

Nahdlatul Ulama (NU) is the largest Muslim body in the country and is chiefly responsible for the reputation of Indonesia as a place of moderate Islam. Its current leader, Hasyim Muzadi, gives his opinions on the sharia debate.

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.

Voices have been raised that the largest Muslim organisation in the country, Nahdlatul Ulama (NU), is moving towards intolerance.

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

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.