Jakarta Governor Fauzi Bowo and the Health Dept to deny smokers and their families health care.

Constitutional Court hears case on free interpretation of religions, a human right or recipe for anarchy.

Blasphemous farting attempts in Probolinggo see police swing into action against a kejawenist rebel.

Some Buddhists are, eventually, up in arms over a Buddhist themed club in Jakarta, the Buddha Bar.

Voters in Indramayu are threatened with hellfire unless the Golkar Party is supported in 2009.

Sectarian violence over classroom blasphemy allegations in the Central Moluccas near Ambon.

The MUI attempts to chase the regent of Purwakarta out of town, for a musical analogy.

A police chief explains about the SKB edict against Ahmadiyah and under what terms arrests will be made.

Confusion reigns as to whether Bali gubernatorial candidate I Gede Winasa is Muslim or Hindu, or both.

A formal banning of the unorthodox Muslim sect Jamaah Ahmadiyah becomes more likely.

On whether women, in this case Khofifah Indar Parawansa, are suitable for regional leadership positions.

Pressure on the government to enact special laws against religious cults, blasphemy trials in Jambi, and the United Nations showing interest.

Likely criminal charges against Tempo magazine for blasphemy against Christianity.

Muslims converting to Bahai.

The most influential women in Indonesia.

Mini theocracy in Bogor and Padang.

Pantheism survives on Java in confused form, although it sometimes needs police protection.

Two Javanese men fall foul of the law for saying Islam is an unwanted Arab import.

An American conservative looks kindly on Islam.

PBR leader Yusuf Lakaseng has been reported to the police for blasphemy against Islam by Zaenal Ma'arif.

Yusman "Gus" Roy says he intends to continue conducting services in both Indonesian and Arabic after having been released from prison.

An Egyptian blogger is arrested for insulting Islam.

Indonesians may have the right to say "wer'e not as bad as Turkey", if the case of Muazzez Ilmiye Cig is anything to go on.

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

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

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

While the law against blasphemy is intended to protect all the main religions of Indonesia it is selectively enforced.

Mohamad Guntur Romli of the Liberal Islam Network (JIL) is questioned by police over blasphemy allegations.

The editor of the Rakyat Merdeka Online faces criminal prosecution over his website's publishing of the prophet Muhammad cartoons earlier this year.

Ex-president Abdurrahman "Gus Dur" Wahid has been reported to the police for insulting Islam.

An official from a body that seeks to educate the public on elections says many local and regional elections are marred by candidates use of religious symbols and language.

Two men are in a police cell because of their liberal interpretation of Islam.

A couple of cases of religious deviancy and the consequent responses of ordinary people and the authorities.

A convert to Christianity in the west Java town of Tasikmalaya has been imprisoned for insulting Islam.

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.

Great article in the Los Angeles Times of March 20th entitled "Separation of Mosque and State Wanes in Indonesia" dealing with the persecution, under blasphemy laws, of Yusman Roy, who sits in prison for the crime of having led prayers at his local mosque in the language of his country and people - Indonesian.

A report titled "Freedom of Expression and the Media" in Indonesia, part of a series of "baseline studies on seven Southeast Asian countries" (what is "baseline"?), was released in December 2005 by Article 19 in London and the Independent Alliance of Journalists in Jakarta.

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?

Another person in the Lia Eden cult has been charged with blasphemy, one Abdul Rahman.

Ahmadiyah and the struggle for Indonesia.

Indonesian newspaper Rakyat Merdeka's website publishes the Muhammad cartoons.

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