The following stories talk about the subject ‘The Island of Java’.
Yusman "Gus" Roy says he intends to continue conducting services in both Indonesian and Arabic after having been released from prison.
Abu Bakar Ba'asyir urges those bent on jihad to go to Indonesia's neighbour, the Philippines.
The battle of the cartoon competitions. A group of Muslims in Kediri, East Java, draw insulting pictures of the Danish royal family as pigs.
Excitable Bogor residents go on the rampage against heresy again.
The government is considering making animism an official religion while some conservative Muslim clerics are unhappy about the prospect.
Hundreds of Muslims demonstrated in Cirebon, West Java, over the appointment of a new police chief, because of his "religious background".
A Muslim cleric was beaten to death by a mob because of his teachings.
The Communion of Churches in Indonesia (PGI) recently held a seminar in which participants voiced their complaints about creeping sharia in the provinces.
Regional laws based on Islamic sharia and their effect on homosexuals.
The gubernatorial election for Banten province in western Java is dominated by the pair of Zulkieflimansyah and former actress Marissa Haque.
Twelve provinces in Indonesia are thought to have a serious problem with trafficking of women and children.
A number of small restaurants were raided by Muslim militants in Bogor and forced to close.
At least one Islamic boarding school on Java is tightening identification requirements for students, especially those from Malaysia.
Multi-culturalism, or what Indonesians might call pluralism, is often spoken of as key to Indonesia's make-up and stability but this is likely wrong-headed.
The banging of drums, and Ramadan fasting slackers, are on the minds of the Pamekasan branch of the Majelis Ulama Indonesia.
A house-church near Bandung was attacked by a mob but police stepped in.
A Protestant house-church was forcibly shut down in Blora, Central Java.
A Muslim mob entered the grounds of a Catholic church in Solo, Central Java.
Police in Pemalang, Central Java, arrested fifteen amorous couples, who were not man and wife.
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.
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