Tabloid media sensation Manohara Odelia Pinot, building mosques and being honoured by the Solo kraton.

A tale of two not very likeable characters - Roy Suryo reports Dewa 19 & Ahmad Dhani to the police for flag desecration.

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

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

A not very taxing quiz to guess the Malay/Indonesian origins of some words in English.

Timdog gives Pramoedya Ananta Toer the literary parody treatment.

Using software to improve your written English, auto-correction of grammar, punctuation, and spelling mistakes.

President Yudhoyono asks the media to not report inappropriate news stories.

Patronising neo-colonialist attitudes by westerners in Bali.

The Indonesian way of death is too graphic for some.

Ranking widgets for blogs in the Top 100.

Compulsory Javanese speaking in schools.

Religious fanaticism, Hitler, and monkeys.

Ausdag explains why learning Indonesian is not popular in Australia.

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

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.

A basic instruction course in bahasa Indonesia, the Indonesian language.

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