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An intelligent young woman on the discourse and interplays of how things are constituted and gendered.
Rampage by militant groups in in Bandung & Tasikmalaya, while a senior Democrat Party figure calls for their banning.
Who is winning the race to build the most houses of worship: proof minorities are not discriminated against.
The many low-cost or free tourist attractions in the cities of Jakarta and Surabaya.
Sectarian mapping of cities to prevent conflict, as another church, in Bekasi, is closed.
Ross on the bigotry of teachers of religion in Islamic schools, ideological jilbabs, and Dewi Persik.
Rima says religion and religiosity are to blame for much of Indonesia's, and the world's, troubles.
Church services in malls, people in West Java are flocking to shopping malls in order to pray.
Easter celebrations in Indonesia, a service in Bogor is broken up, mayhem in Atambua, everywhere else humdrum.
A Batak church in Tangerang, West Java is attacked.
Illegal churches in Bekasi are urged to get their paperwork in order.
A Sunday school/church in Bandung was raided, the pastor's wife beaten and images of Jesus smashed.
Building a Pentecostal church in Bangka-Belitung.
Laws based on the bible in Papua.
The builders of mosques are urged to get permission.
Disaster prone Indonesia is populated by people weak in faith, or weak in honesty, depending on your view.
The Gerakan Kemerdekaan Minahasa in North Sulawesi have hopes of independence from Indonesia.
The International Religious Freedom Report 2006 by the American Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor.
A Protestant house-church was forcibly shut down in Blora, Central Java.
A proposed widening of the scope of anti-blasphemy laws could see atheists prosecuted.
An overview of the tolerance situation in Indonesia today.
Stories of mob action against churches in Indonesia tend to very often emanate from West Java, as another church, near Bandung, was closed on July 16th.
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.
Muslims in the town of Manokwari in Papua can't get permission to build mosques, says a member of parliament.
The Partai Damai Sejahtera, PDS, says that they do not want to be viewed as a religious party.
More moderate Islam in Bogor, near Jakarta. Two churches, that apparently did not have their paperwork in order, were "sealed" by nearby Muslim residents.
Interview with the deputy chairman of the Indonesian Ulema Council (MUI), Ma'ruf Amin, on the houses of worship law, from the Jakarta Post.
A Catholic scholar in Indonesia explains his objections to the new decree on the building of houses of worship.
The leader of the Nadhlatul Ulama, a traditionalist village Islamic social organisation, Hasyim Muzadi, says Christians will find it even harder to gain permission for church building in the wake of the newly revised law on houses of worship.
A house that was used for church services in the city of Bogor, near Jakarta, has been forced to close due to residents' complaints.
The law on building houses of worship.
The city of Bandung in west Java has seen, since 2004, the forced closing of about 25 churches by Muslim bigots, mainly the Islamic Defenders Front, whether working alone, or in cooperation with a bigot umbrella organisation called the Anti Apostasy Movement (AGAP). Yesterday two more churches in Bandung were targeted, the Kasih Anugerah Church and the Bethel Indonesia Church.
Ahmadiyah homes attacked in Lombok.
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