Mystics and Islamists battle it out in a Javanese village, Andrew Beatty's "A Shadow Falls".

East Asians are all one big happy family historically, from south east Asia not China.

Latest book bannings from the Attorney General's Office, revisionist history and religious pluralism.

The banning of "Balibo" the movie, screenings of it in Jakarta, and talkative Colonel Gatot Purwanto.

A review of "The Indonesia Reader", an anthology of Indonesian history, culture and politics.

A newly released film on East Timor in 1999 opens old wounds between Indonesia and Australia.

Review of film Merah Putih, evil colonialists & brave patriots.

Fatwa on superstitious beliefs in arts and pop culture television.

Lacklustre televised presidential debates are a ruling class ruse, rails Ross.

Videos of Balinese life in early 20th century: fields, ceremonies, cockfighting, and bare breasted women.

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

Adam Malik, former vice president in the Soeharto era, is accused of having been an American CIA agent.

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

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

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

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

Perseus on Francis Fukuyama and whether Islamism will derail Indonesia's new democracy.

A Betawi figure worries that many immigrants to Jakarta are too narrow in their cultural perspective.

Spew looks back on the May 1998 riots and the issues of mass rapes, anti-Chinese sentiment, and how the rioters came to be judged.

How many men taught the Javanese their Islam, how far they succeeded and whether the Javanese are really just heathens.

Spew says Indonesians are being denied much of the country's greatest literature, for political reasons.

Fatkhuri says Muslim and Christian civilization have much in common.

Timdog enthuses over the brothel district of "Dolly" in Surabaya.

Dewaratugedeanom asks what gives countries the rights to make territorial claims.

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

The nature of the massacres of 1965-66.

Suharto: Let the People Speak, Please Help Indonesia Matters do an informal poll.

Indonesian comfort women under the Japanese.

Should Indonesia seek compensation from the Netherlands?

Indonesia is founded on discrimination against minorities, says Dragonwall.

Achmad worries that Indonesia's U.F.O. technology will be lost to foreigners.

President Sukarno and Aidit's communist coup attempt in 1965.

Remembering the Communist Party (PKI) in the post Suharto era.

Former president Suharto and stolen state assets.

Ross on Metro TV's Chinese-language news service, Xin Wen.

There was no genocide or serious human rights abuse in East Timor.

The Attorney General Office's banning of some history books.

The distance between Indonesian Chinese people and Islam.

A memoir of the Japanese occupation of Java.

Anti-Chinese feeling in Indonesia, 1996-1999.

What Islam is and why people love it.

Conspiracy theories and paranoia from former military commander Prabowo Subianto.

Some interesting works on Mohamed Suharto, or Soeharto, former president of Indonesia including some works of biography.

Some of the key events in west Papua's past, leading up to integration with Indonesia.

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.

Guest writer Sarawut Pratoomraj discusses cases of political disappearances in the last years of the Suharto regime.

New book out concerning a journalist's memories of the tumultous period of the late 1990's in Indonesia, In the Time of Madness: Indonesia on the Edge of Chaos.

Majelis Mujahidin in Indonesia leader Fauzan Al-anshori on "The New Crusade".

This book, called Indonesia Matters, of all things, is subtitled "Diversity, Unity, and Stability in Fragile Times".

A scholarly paper looks at the process of Islamicization of the people of northern Lombok.

The banning or censoring of three films about Indonesia's role in East Timor.

The nature of the 1965-66 pogroms in Indonesia as they occurred in East Java province.

Hugh Fitzgerald makes a fool of himself.