The following stories deal with the subject of the Islamic religion in Indonesia, contemporary understandings of it and the effects of Islam on society and politics.
A Batak church in Tangerang, West Java is attacked.
Four ways you can possibly get around the law against mixed-religion marriages.
Centrist political leaders, young and old, criticise religion based laws.
Ross asks whether the government is willing to bring some Muslims into the 21st century.
The Javanese are more likely to become terrorists than other ethnic groups.
The leader of Jamaah Islamiyah (JI), Abu Irsyad alias Zarkarsih, is captured by police.
An anti Islam website run by a Christian political party.
A sharia policeman in Aceh is caught in toilet sex with a teenage girl.
Christianisation through sodomy, hypnosis, and kidnapping is rampant in Indonesia.
Constitutional court head Jimly Asshiddiqie on harmonising Islamic law and Indonesian law.
On dealing with militant Islamic preachers in Saudi Arabia, and Indonesia.
Female students at the University of Indonesia no longer ride around on Vespa scooters half naked.
Parvita writes on the topic: Loudspeaker Abuse in the Mosques: should mosques be disciplined?
The Al-Zaytun Islamic school has fallen under suspicion of links to Negara Islam Indonesia (NII).
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