Punishment for sin, a minister blames disasters on depravity & corruption of Indonesians.

Surabaya's Juanda Airport tops the class of 2009 in the airport toilets' quality stakes.

RD consults another source for travel advice.

Want to get away and lie on a beach? Read on.

The most and least corrupt cities and towns, how easy it is perceived to do business around Indonesia.

A minority within a minority, organization and numbers of Chinese Muslims in Java and North Sumatra.

Comparing cost of living in Indonesian cities, most expensive, Balikpapan to cheapest, Mataram.

Kepolisian di beberapa daerah terus melakukan penggeledahan di hotel-hotel murah dan tempat hiburan malam untuk mengawasi pasangan-pasangan pezinah.

Police in some areas are keeping up the pressure on courting and adulterous couples, by raiding night spots and cheap hotels.

Maraknya penyerangan terhadap masjid dan pesantren di Jawa Barat.

It's the season for attacks on mosques and Islamic schools in West Java.

Mini theocracy in Bogor and Padang.

Bali has the cleanest toilets.

Centrist political leaders, young and old, criticise religion based laws.

So-called sharia laws are no threat to Indonesian unity, Indonesians are just conservative.

Policemen in Padang go looking for VCD and DVD porn.

The Padang government wants school religious textbooks to be more Islamically correct.

Over 80 people have died in an earthquake in West Sumatra.

New contributor Ross McKay discusses the "PP 37", a new law granting pay rises to parliamentarians.

An Islamic court in West Sumatra puts on trial Aa Gym and Yahya Zaini.

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

The Padang government enforces an "Islamic" dress code for students and forbids women from going out at night alone.

Members of Muhammadiyah have formed a new political party, Partai Matahari Bangsa.

Ten Indonesian cities are held to be suitable for the holding of international conferences and conventions.

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

The law in Ambon city enforces respect for Muslim customs, as it does in Padang, West Sumatra.

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.

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

Muslim clerics in West Sumatra are to be provided with a salary by the provincial government.

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

Students wishing to enter junior high schools in Padang, Sumatra, must in future provide a certificate that proves their ability to read and write in Arabic.

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).

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

Syafi'i Anwar, of the International Centre for Islam and Pluralism (ICIP), remarks on the growing demand for sharia based law in provincial areas of Indonesia.

It's common practice for analysts of Indonesian politcal affairs to divide parties into two groups, Islamist, and secular, but this is an over-simplification.

Sharia laws in Padang, Sumatra.

Creeping sharia in Indonesian draws protests.