A discussion of Indonesia's finest, according to Indonesia's best travel guide, Lonely Planet.

Sectarian mapping of cities to prevent conflict, as another church, in Bekasi, is closed.

Expat men in Indonesia and their love affairs with lower class women, opposites attract.

Criteria for passing in Depok schools, Ujian Nasional test results plus religious knowledge.

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

How some Indonesian hospitals treat complaints & the poor, kidnapping & false imprisonment.

The shame of Indonesian football, Bonek, Persebaya Surabaya supporters, run amok.

Actresses Ayu Azhari and Desy Ratnasari have their sights on political power in Sukabumi, who will win?

Obscure branches of the MUI have their 15 minutes of fame in protest at the '2012' doomsday movie.

Problematic religious schools on Java, which ones and police monitoring of them.

How hot are the fires in hell and how they are full of women.

Fatwa on superstitious beliefs in arts and pop culture television.

Noordin M Top not dead after a Densus 88 raid in Temanggung, in another raid in Bekasi a car bomb is found.

The place where bizarre, abusive, tortured comments that don't get approved come to rest.

Whether western intelligence agencies are bent on causing mayhem in Indonesia.

RD consults another source for travel advice.

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

Indonesian attitudes to the Darfur issue in Sudan, in comparison to Palestine.

For the scholar, Cornell Modern Indonesia Collection, wacked from their 'browse' page:

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

Reading and writing in Arabic is a must for civil servants and village heads in Bogor.

Goyang under threat, whether the governor of West Java wants to ban jaipong dance for being too sexy.

Dealing with the Zionist movement and Freemasonry in Bandung, calls for banning of the Rotary & Lions Clubs.

Photographer Ilham Anas' new career as Barack Obama celebrity lookalike and impersonator.

Celebrity Islamists, including mother daughter team Emilia Contessa and Denada Tambunan, line up for the Development Party in 2009.

Mixing Sundanese disco music and Islam invites bigotry and later "mediation" in West Java, as Ross finds out.

Local people in Tasikmalaya are roused to action to prevent mysterious cave men rituals.

Purba on eating habits and foods of Indonesians, prevalence of diabetes and obesity.

Willie Soon & Christopher Monckton, climate change sceptics, on temperature levels in Indonesia and the "saving the planet" mantra.

Purba on Barry Soetoro aka Barack Obama's Indonesian connection.

Clare recounts his daughter's experience of having a child out of wedlock in Yogyakarta.

Purba Negoro sees broad sunlit uplands for East Timor-Indonesia relations, and current Australian nefariousness.

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

Timdog on popular stereotypes about Madura and the Madurese, and the rumoured sexual prowess of the women.

Achmad appreciates Australian popular culture, in this case the songs of Kevin Bloody Wilson.

Whether westerners and expats in Indonesia are viewed as miserable and unfriendly people.

Lairedion on the Dutch state being sued over war crimes at Rawagede, West Java.

Ramadan etiquette for unbelievers, by Purba Negoro.

Callum on slash and burn farming, energy subsidies, ways to tackle the issues of high food and fuel prices.

Callum foresees rising levels of poverty and social unrest as the consequences for Indonesia of global warming.

People from East Nusa Tenggara continue to play out 16th century European theological battles.

Paranormal figure Ki Gendeng Pamungkas enters the world of politics in Bogor.

Ross worries that the next target of Islamic fanatics will be old Javanese figures and traditions.

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

Purba Negoro looks at Indonesian defence issues in somewhat mystical Javanese terms.

Sadanand Dhume's My Friend the Fanatic - Travels with an Indonesian Islamist.

The Justice Party's ideology, recent electoral wins, and chances of success for 2009 general and presidential elections.

A church is burned down in Purwakarta, West Java by local people feeling slighted at the lack of response to their protests over its construction.

Marrying off old and poor people and those living in sin, it's mass wedding ceremony season.

Therry says overseas educated Indonesian women are faced with prejudice back at home and poor choices on the men front.