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

The protests and furore over allowing the burial of killed extremists in and around Solo.

BI governor Boediono for vice president, whether a neo-liberal and not religious enough.

Some of the last holdouts against Islam on Java convert under the guidance of Hidayatullah.

The building of specifically Hindu religious schools for primary and secondary education in Bali.

The magical faith healing stone of young boy Ponari is big business for a small village in East Java.

Purba on eating habits and foods of Indonesians, prevalence of diabetes and obesity.

Clare recounts his daughter's experience of having a child out of wedlock in Yogyakarta.

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

Ramadan etiquette for unbelievers, by Purba Negoro.

Purba Negoro on the future of Javanese language, and learning some easy words and phrases.

Ross worries that the next target of Islamic fanatics will be old Javanese figures and traditions.

Two aspirants for the presidency, Soetrisno Bachir and Prabowo Subianto, put themselves about.

Purba Negoro looks at Indonesian defence issues in somewhat mystical Javanese terms.

Modern day Javanese girls showing off their bras and underwear willy nilly, and the position of Javanese culture today.

Timdog gives Pramoedya Ananta Toer the literary parody treatment.

Sadanand Dhume's My Friend the Fanatic - Travels with an Indonesian Islamist.

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

Justice Party politician Hidayat Nurwahid's wife-to-be, the lovely widow Diana Abbas Thalib of Kemang.

Compulsory Javanese speaking in schools.

Strange and funny Indonesian sex facts.

The president doesn't need to be ethnically Javanese.

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

Achmad envisages a new Mojopahit Empire with Australia as vassal state.

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

Traditional Javanese wayang golek rod puppets, painted, with batik clothes.

The Javanese are more likely to become terrorists than other ethnic groups.

Parliamentarians fear that foreigners are spreading disease in Indonesia.

The decline of fertility rates and the problems this may cause.

Dating girls and women in Medan, North Sumatra.

The government is considering making animism an official religion while some conservative Muslim clerics are unhappy about the prospect.

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.

Javanese language and script are dying and president Yudhoyono is one who is concerned.

The pronouns of bahasa Indonesia, both standard Indonesian language forms and slang and colloquial forms particularly as used in Javanese areas of the country.

The music and instruments of Indonesian Gamelan.

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

According to the Freedom House annual report on democracy in the world there exists one democracy in the middle east. Despite the regular attacks and hatred that this lonely democracy in a sea of Muslim terror and repression attracts from many in the West Israel remains the only bright spot on an otherwise darkly painted canvas.