The BBC says Pulau Weh in Aceh is the next great location for diving enthusiasts.

Whether barongsai Chinese lion dancing is banned in Aceh, or just a misunderstanding.

The orangutans in Borneo and Sumatra, destruction of their habitat, and efforts to help them.

Clerical, non bewildered reaction to Barack Obama's winning of the Nobel Peace Prize.

Wailing and gnashing of teeth in Aceh over the shameless Putri Indonesia 2009.

Two clouds with silver linings, Tommy Suharto's bid for Golkar, and sharia stoning laws in Aceh.

Fatwa on superstitious beliefs in arts and pop culture television.

Who is behind the recent violence in Aceh, and the sharia laws.

Ross sees parallels between the Justice Party/PKS, and the PKI of old.

Another East Timor in Papua, lack of development in the province, and racism by other Indonesians towards Papuans.

Demilitarization in Papua, Aceh, and Maluku, the difficult process of removing military influence in politics.

Ross rails that Gestapo style methods of interrogation are used by the sharia police in Aceh.

Ross on the bigotry of teachers of religion in Islamic schools, ideological jilbabs, and Dewi Persik.

Purba Negoro on perceived threats to national unity.

Religious leaders in Aceh worry about what young people are getting up to before, during, and probably after, Ramadan.

How the Sharia authorities of Aceh persuade citizens to get on with their religious obligations.

Spoilt for choice in the 2009 elections, almost three dozen political parties to choose from, most with their own acronym.

Explanations for the FPI violence at Monas, blaming the victims, the government, and foreign plots.

Keterangan mengenai kekerasan FPI di Monas, menyalahkan korban, pemerintah dan persekongkolan asing.

Ross fumes against sharia byelaws in Indonesia.

What if the Indonesian Communist Party (PKI) had taken over in 1965.

Minimum wage rates for 2008 throughout Indonesia.

Merambatnya Islam lunak di Indonesia menurut pemerhati mancanegara.

Western aid agencies and their gender equity agenda in Indonesia.

Islamic law hinders reconstruction in Aceh.

Foreign buying of palm oil estates and plantations.

Islamic law helps tourism in Aceh.

Centrist political leaders, young and old, criticise religion based laws.

Singer Rebecca Reijman falls afoul of Islamic law in Aceh.

Munir was murdered to protect President Yudhoyono.

Ross asks whether the government is willing to bring some Muslims into the 21st century.

Sharia as a set of personal obligations, or as a state-enforced system.

Christian evangelizing efforts in Aceh.

Sharia, caning, and violations of human rights.

Women university students in tight clothing, or not.

The Aceh Thaliban Party gains support.

Young men and women are still mixing freely in Aceh.

A sharia policeman in Aceh is caught in toilet sex with a teenage girl.

An amorous young couple in Aceh are given the lash.

The men of Aceh are not fulfilling their Friday prayer obligations.

Baiturrahman mosque enforces strict dress codes for visitors.

Transvestites in Aceh who work in hairdressing salons risk losing their jobs.

Citizens of Aceh are starting to enforce sharia laws by themselves.

People in Aceh must learn Malayan Arabic.

Rates of violence against women.

Aceh is threatened by communism, says the head of the Banda Aceh parliament.

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

Whose side are the security forces on? asks Ross.

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

Islamic parties must form coalitions in order to ensure success for ideological Islam, it is argued.

The sharia police of Aceh have begun a month long campaign against unIslamic behaviour.

Former separatists Irwandi Yusuf & Muhammad Nazar of GAM have won Aceh's gubernatorial election.

It is proposed that thieves in Aceh have their hands amputated.

A group called Muhammadiyah in Aceh feels the wrath of the mob.

Not everyone is sure which way the Indonesian flag goes, and one man paid with his life for raising it the wrong way.

The Samaritan's Purse group are not welcome in North Sumatra.

Gubernatorial candidates in Aceh must be able to recite the Koran. One candidate, Mediati Hafni Hanum, failed the test.

A house used as a church in Aceh was burned to the ground by a mob.

The religious police in Aceh were caught peeping through bedroom windows at the World Food Programme headquarters in Banda Aceh.

The long march of militant Islam through the institutions, on the university campuses of Aceh, with some fearing that Aceh may be the springboard for groups such as the PKS to dominate other areas.

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.

Pressure on the existence of sharia type laws in the provinces grows as fifty-six members of parliament in Jakarta demand their annulment.

Guest writer Sarawut Pratoomraj discusses the similarities in the cases of the murders of two human rights activists, Munir Said Thalib in Indonesia and Somchai Neelaphaijit in Thailand.

According to an organisation called the "Fund for Peace" Indonesia ranks 32nd worst in the list of failed states in the world.

Whether to apply Islamic law to non-Muslims in Aceh.

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.

Mardiyah Chamim, an Indonesian journalist, writes about her experiences of the application of sharia, or syariah, law in the province of Aceh in northern Sumatra.

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

A public caning in Aceh.

Sharia laws in Aceh on female dress.

Islamic leaders in the Indonesian province of Aceh have claimed that aid and charity workers are secretly attempting to convert the Acehenese to Christianity.

Women may have been the cause of the Asian tsunami.