The May 1998 riots in Jakarta and other Indonesian cities, mass rapes, anti-Chinese sentiment, and how the rioters came to be viewed.

List of the various political isms, neo-liberalism, capitalism, imperialism, and colonialism, and materialism.

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

Syamsul Arifin and Gatot Pujo Nugroho win the North Sumatra election.

Power-mongering and the profit motive behind the West’s examples of hypocrisy over human rights

On the harmony or otherwise between democracy and Islam.

Pramoedya Ananta Toer as a bullying commissar of literature.

The lovely Julia Suryakusuma, and other intellectuals, commit treason.

What if there had been a communist victory in 1965.

Military men in politics and whether the Indonesian people are ready for democracy.

The Israeli Palestinian conflict, and Indonesia’s relationship with Israel.

Whether the state ideology Pancasila means anything to Indonesians.

Western aid agencies and their gender equity agenda in Indonesia.

What future for Indonesia, as 2008 approaches?

Lobbying defined, and laws on political lobbying in Indonesia.

Some fear the rise of a morality police.

Questions about the philosophy of education in Indonesian schools.

Juwono Sudarsono offers advice for democracy obsessed westerners.

Australia insults president Yudhoyono.

Indonesian Muslims still have some way to go in learning Islam.

Western-style democracy is not suitable for Indonesia.

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

The relationship between Indonesian democracy and Islam.