A review of "The Indonesia Reader", an anthology of Indonesian history, culture and politics.

Cultural protectionism and Big Brother in Indonesian film making law, the UU Perfilman.

Educating the public about the pornography bill and legal challenges against UU Porno at the Constitutional Court.

The proposed Pornography law is to be passed next week, and grumblings from Bali.

Rima says the government creates distractions and the media willingly participate, to hide the real problems of Indonesia.

Government efforts to regulate the internet and block access to porn websites.

Some fear the rise of a morality police.

The MUI rides the anti-heretic wave to more money and influence.

Dealing with pornography and protecting children.

[Updated] The long, tortuous journey of the RUU Anti Pornoaksi Pornografi is approaching its end.

Regional laws based on Islamic sharia and their effect on homosexuals.

The RUU APP is again being debated in the parliament, but may have now been reduced to just the RUU Pornography.

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

The controversial anti-pornography bill has run into problems in the parliament.

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

A round-up of recent news on the RUU APP, the anti-pornography bill.

It's not just conservative Muslims who don't like the Playboy brand, some Balinese Hindus are less than enthused as well.

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

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

The government appears willing to better deal with extremist thuggery.

Los Angeles Times' writer Richard C. Paddock produces an interesting article on the pornography law.

Sinta Nuriyah Wahid, the wife of former president Abdurrahman Wahid, is suing the Betawi Brotherhood Forum (FBR) for slandering women.

Expatriate pop singer Anggun visited Jakarta recently and left us with her opinions on the anti-pornography bill.

The Indonesian Ulema Council has issued 19 new fatwas.

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 review of recent news on the pornography and morality bill as thousands of Muslims rallied in Jakarta in support of it yesterday.

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

The Islamic Defenders Front, FPI, are concerned about the problem of human refuse in the city of Depok, specifically dangdut dancers and singers such as Inul Daratista.

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.

Yoyoh Yusroh, a member of the Islamist Prosperous Justice Party, PKS, in supporting the proposed law against public indecency, says women need to be protected from globalization.

Amidhan, the chairman of the Indonesian Ulema Council and a member of the National Commission on Human Rights, gives his reasons for supporting the anti-porn and public indecency bill in an interview with the Jakarta Post.

The man in charge of the committee dealing with the anti-porn bill has said that the bill will likely be debated on in the parliament in June 2006 and then passed into law because the opposition to it is so insignificant.

The battle over the anti-pornography and public display of sexuality bill is far from over. Today tens of thousands of Muslims rallied in the capital of Lombok island, Mataram, and were addressed by the mayor of that fair city, who said that women who dressed sexy were asking to be raped.

We briefly mentioned in Porn Wars the attitude of the Indonesian Mujahadin Council, Majelis Mujahidin Indonesia (MMI), towards those in Bali who objected to some of the provisions in the anti-pornography and indecency law. Looking at what the MMI had to say in detail opens ones eyes to certain Muslim attitudes to Bali and the Balinese.

Tons of porn news today, get yer porn here.

About 300 people, mostly women, took to the streets on Saturday in a loud protest against the antipornography bill, which they said degraded women, insulted many local cultures and threatened tourism.

The religious leader and former president Gus Dur, and his wife Sinta, have come out against the proposed new law on pornography and indecency.

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?

The two largest parties in the parliament, Golkar and PDI-P, appear likely to push for changes to the anti-porn bill. The two parties between them have 237 of the 550 seats in parliament.

A good article in Tempo magazine appeared recently on the matter of the anti-pornography and indecency bill that framed the question in terms of a conflict between Arab cultural imperialism (Islam) and native Indonesian culture.

Muslim groups staged rallies yesterday at the Tangerang local council and the administration office in support of the pornography bill, which is being deliberated by the House of Representatives.

A roundup of some of the current opinions regarding the proposed new law against indecency and pornography.

The contradictions at the heart of the make up of the Indonesian nation are on display in a somewhat comical way presently in the attempts by Islamist lawmakers in Jakarta to enact a new, draconian law against pornography (pornografi) and supposed public indecency (pornoaksi).