The experts say soft Islam is sweeping the country, not hard Islam.

Ross worries that western do-gooders are trying to have spanking and caning outlawed.

Sharia, caning, and violations of human rights.

An amorous young couple in Aceh are given the lash.

Rates of violence against women.

Hidayat Nurwahid on the beauty and ugliness of sharia.

Sharia in Aceh is non-negotiable, says a young cleric.

Aceh doesn't have enough qualified judges for its sharia courts.

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

Frozen eel exports from Indonesia have met with rejection from European health officials.

As two people are caned for adultery in Aceh a report comes out claiming that women and the poor are victimised by sharia law in the province.

The mayor of Bulukumba in south Sulawesi says non-Muslims support the imposition of sharia law in his regency.

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.

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

A picture from late January 2006 of a man who had been caned 40 times.

One small step at a time the administration of Tangerang, a satellite city of Jakarta, seeks to implement sharia law. The latest foray in this area sees the local government attempt to ban the selling of food during Friday prayers.

A public caning in Aceh.