Religious leaders in Aceh worry about young people riding pillion together and going to beach parties.

Methods and techniques of persuasion to encourage people to live by sharia law.

A list of political party acronyms in Indonesia.

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

Explanations for the FPI violence at Monas, blaming the victims and others, the government, and the CIA.

Sharia inspired bylaws in Indonesia.

What if there had been a communist victory in 1965.

An increase in the current minimum wage in 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.

Buying palm oil estates and plantations in Indonesia.

Islamic law does not harm tourism in Aceh.

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

Singer Rebecca Suyati Reijman falls afoul of Islamic law in Aceh at a Nidji concert.

The Munir murder case.

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

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

Christian evangelizing efforts to Muslims in Aceh.

Sharia, caning, and violations of human rights.

Women university students in tight clothing.

The Aceh Thaliban Party.

Young men and women are still fraternizing freely in Aceh.

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

A young boy and girl in Aceh are caned.

Muslim prayers in Aceh on Fridays.

Baiturrahman mosque in Banda Aceh.

Waria who work in hair dressing salons.

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

People in Aceh must be fluent in Malayan Arabic.

Rates of violence against women.

The Cold War goes on in Aceh.

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

The Indonesian security forces.

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

Islamic parties must form coalitions in order to ensure success for ideological Islam.

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.

Flag deaths in Indonesia, and Cliff Muntu.

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, enforced by the Wilayatul Hisbah.

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

The similarities in the cases of the murders of two human rights activists, Munir Said Thalib in Indonesia and Somchai Neelaphaijit in Thailand.

Whether to apply Islamic law to non-Muslims in Aceh, like Christians.

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.

Aceh Caning Picture.

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.