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

Ross finds shameful bigotry in the fair city of Tangerang.

Treespotter looks at capital punishment around the world, and an argument in favour of it.

American led societal transformation, intercession and the prophetic marketed in Indonesia.

Whether working on Sundays is a sign of Islamization for the pious Papuans.

A violent neighbourhood dispute over a Christian theological college in East Jakarta.

Immigration to West Papua is said to be creating the conditions for sectarian conflict.

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.

Dewi Sandra, who is not Sandra Dewi, reassures her fans that she has not re-flipped on the religion front.

Church services in malls, people in West Java are flocking to shopping malls in order to pray.

Fatkhuri says Muslim and Christian civilization have much in common.

The film "Ketika Cinta Bertasbih" and not hurting the feelings of religious minorities.

Timdog on world religions and local beliefs in Nusa Tenggara.

Ross continues to be infuriated by the lovely Julia Suryakusuma, and other intellectuals.

Likely criminal charges against Tempo magazine for blasphemy against Christianity.

Ross fumes against sharia byelaws in Indonesia.

Why there are so many attacks on churches in western Java.

The Batam airwaves are often a mix of foreign and religious content.

A Batak church in Tangerang, West Java is attacked.

Muslim-Christian live-in programs.

Christian evangelizing efforts in Aceh.

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.

The Catholic minority in Madura.

A neighbourly sectarian dispute over the building of a new church in North Jakarta.

Christianisation through sodomy, hypnosis, and kidnapping is rampant in Indonesia.

Building a Pentecostal church in Bangka-Belitung.

An anti apostasy group in Bandung pays a visit to a church.

Laws based on the bible in Papua.

Police are hunting down the makers of an anti Islam video.

The Arastamar Evangelical School of Theology (SETIA) in Jakarta has attracted the attention of Islamic militants.

A Muhammadiyah university lecturer was fired for recommending the saying of "Merry Christmas".

A Christian group in Bandung is forced to stop services.

The rules for Christmas celebrations, by Abu Bakar Ba'asyir.

What Islam is and why people love it.

A Christian radio station in North Sumatra wins a license to operate, in spite of the pessimism of its owners over the prospects of doing so.

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

A house-church near Bandung was attacked by a mob but police stepped in.

Some possible reasons for the references to Islam given within Pope Benedict's speech.

A Protestant house-church was forcibly shut down in Blora, Central Java.

Pope Benedict's speech and the muted reaction of Indonesian Muslim leaders.

Rebekka Zakaria, Eti Pangesti & Ratna Bangun have completed sixteen months of their three-year prison sentence for running a Christian kindergarten in which some Muslim children attended.

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

While the law against blasphemy is intended to protect all the main religions of Indonesia it is selectively enforced.

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.

The reactions of Indonesian Christians to the Israel - Lebanon situation.

Waai village in central Maluku, destroyed in the sectarian war of 2001, rebuilds.

Sexual immorality is the enemy of not only Muslims in Indonesia but also Christians, says a senior religious leader.

The "Jaringan Islam Emansipatoris", or Emancipatory Islamic Network, write about the Crusades and get it all wrong.

A Christian foundation in Surabaya, East Java, reaches out to the masses.

A convert to Christianity in the west Java town of Tasikmalaya has been imprisoned for insulting Islam.

Indonesia remains on the "Watch List" in the United States Commission on International Religious Freedom report for 2006.

More moderate Islam in Bogor, near Jakarta. Two churches, that apparently did not have their paperwork in order, were "sealed" by nearby Muslim residents.

A Christian pre-school in Tangerang, Banten, near Jakarta, was surrounded by a mob yesterday which demanded that it close down.

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 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.

The Sang Timur Roman Catholic school in the city of Tangerang, near Jakarta, which has about 2000 students, has been suffering constant harassment from local Muslim residents since, in October 2004, they built a wall at the main entrance to the school to prevent access.

At a news conference in Jakarta the chairman of Muhammadiyah, which is a modernist Islamic social group with about 25 million members, Din Syamsuddin, said that religious harmony was difficult in Indonesia because Christianity and Islam were by nature proselytising faiths and naturally collided with each other.

A study of youth political & religious affiliation.

The Indonesian state and political system is a peculiar compromise between secularism and Islamism. The two are often in conflict, naturally, and it is often not clear which one has the upper hand at any particular time. While attempts by Islamist political parties to enforce sharia law consistently fail to win support at the national level, other, more localised forms of Islamism, or creeping Islamicisation as we like to call it, have gained ground in 2005.

A picture of a Christmas service in Java.

Christmas Eve security in Jakarta.

Religious persecution in Indonesia.

The Muhammadiyah organisation in Indonesia, the second largest Muslim social group in the country and of a modernist bent, has offered buildings it owns such as schools and halls for the use of Christians on Christmas Eve and Christmas Day.

The Islamic Defenders Front plan to help guard churches at Christmas.