Bali bomber Amrozi finds love in prison, and marries today, while his execution nears.

The Indonesian government creates distractions and the media willingly participate, to hide the real problems of Indonesia.

A plea to defend Jamaah Ahmadiyah against a modern day witch hunt.

A formal ban on Ahmadiyah gets closer.

Chastity locks for female massage parlor workers.

Government efforts to regulate the internet and block access to websites thought inappropriate.

Pressure on the government to enact special laws against religious cults, blasphemy trials in Jambi, and United Nations interest.

The lovely Julia Suryakusuma, and other intellectuals, commit treason.

Yusril Ihza Mahendra, Admiral Cheng Ho film star, legal theorist, and presidential aspirant

Sharia inspired bylaws in Indonesia.

Corruption allegations against Bank Indonesia governor Burhanuddin Abdullah.

The Miss Indonesia 2008 beauty pageant in Palembang.

The Partai Keadilan Sejahtera broadens its electoral and cultural horizons, in Bali.

Why there is so much church persecution in western Java.

Whether to ban Islamic sects like Ahmadiyah.

Whether women soldiers and policewomen can wear Muslim headscarves.

Dukun, or shaman practices in Indonesia.

Indonesian police, corruption, bribery and graft.

Lobbying defined, and laws on political lobbying in Indonesia.

Some fear the rise of a morality police.

The MUI, Clerics’ Council, Majelis Ulama Indonesia.

Whether the introduction of military conscription is right for Indonesia.

Laws that discriminate against Indonesian women.

Political stability and rule of law conditions, 1996 to 2006.

Islamic law hinders reconstruction in Aceh.

The Wahidiyah movement is attacked in Tasikmalaya.

Laws against giving money to street beggars.

Press freedom is threatened in the outcome of the Soeharto vs. Time libel case.

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.

President Yudhoyono is disturbed by a group of dancing separatists in Ambon.

Human rights violations against Abu Dujana (Yusron Mahmudi/Ainul Bahri) and his children.

Governor Sutiyoso and anti-Australianism and street thuggery.

Indonesians have conservative moral values and beliefs and so sharia based laws are natural.

People trust religious leaders the most and view religion as the basis of nationality.

The 1974 Marriage Law violates religious freedom.

There are no more “haram” or illegitimate children in Surabaya.

TV advertisements must be all Indonesian content.

Ahmad Dhani and Maia take their marital problems to the police.

Biblical laws in Manokwari, Papua.

An anti Islam video in Batu, Malang, East Java.

Constitutional court head Jimly Asshiddiqie on harmonising Islamic law and Indonesian law.

Twelve Christians from Poso face the death penalty for terrorism.

Police crack down on the playing of online Bola Tangkas.

Hitmen and contract killers in Jakarta.

Rates of violence against women.

Hidayat Nur Wahid on the beauty and ugliness of sharia.

A polygamous man is imprisoned for unlawful polygamy.

The Indonesian security forces.

Hope For the Helpless? Overseas Workers Ordeals, by Ross.

Amnesty International condemns the treatment of domestic housekeepers in Indonesia.

The PP 37, a new law granting pay rises to parliamentarians.

Foreign radio and television broadcasts should be censored, say some leaders.

The death penalty, or capital punishment, is opposed to the Constitution, say some.

Indonesia’s press freedom level remains fairly low.

The trial of Playboy editor Erwin Arnada.

Some of the laws against insulting the president were quashed by the Constitutional Court.

Aa Gym’s polygamous marriage, and the sour reaction to it from many, has caused the government to toughen its anti-polygamy stance.

The long, tortuous journey of the RUU Pornografi is approaching its end.

Children born of mixed Indonesian and foreign parentage can now obtain dual nationality.

The cautionary tale of Newmont executive Richard Ness.

Abortion is permissible in rape cases but not in pregnancies resulting from adulterous liasons, says the MUI.

The government is considering making animism an official religion while some conservative Muslim clerics object.

The family of Fabianus Tibo plan to take their case to the International Court of Justice.

Sultry model and actress Sarah Azhari.

Tommy Suharto walked free from prison today.

Regional laws based on Islamic sharia and their effect on homosexuals, gays, lesbians, and bisexuals in Indonesia.

The RUU APP is again being debated in the parliament, but may have now been reduced to just the RUU Pornography.

The members of the Ed Residivis, or Ed Edy and Residivis, are being tried for insulting the police.

The implementation of the new citizenship law seems to be progressing with unusual speed.

The International Religious Freedom Report 2006 for Indonesia by the American Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor.

About 300,000 people will be made idle due to the closing of entertainment venues in Jakarta during Ramadan.

Fahrur Rahman has gone on trial for insulting the nation’s wise leader, president Yudhoyono.

A proposed widening of the scope of anti-blasphemy laws could see atheists prosecuted, or atheism become a crime.

The controversial anti-pornography bill has run into problems in the parliament.

The death penalty receives continued support from conservative Islamic groups.

A study says the system of devolving power to the regions, or regional autonomy, is spurring the advent of tribalism and disunity.

The owners of warnets, or internet cafes, will be required to take down the identity card details of warnet users, a new law says.

The government plans to revise the freedom to demonstrate law, in an effort to reduce instances of mob violence.

While the law against blasphemy is intended to protect all the main religions of Indonesia it is selectively enforced.

A number of convicts serving terrorist related crimes received remissions on their sentences, as a way of marking Indonesian independence day on 17th August.

Putri Indonesia Nadine Chandra says she is ready to be questioned by police over the bikini scandal.

Mohamad Guntur Romli of the Liberal Islam Network (JIL) is questioned by police over blasphemy allegations.

While Depok heads down the road of instituting strict morality laws two candidates for mayor of Jakarta say sharia is not on the agenda for the national capital.

A round-up of recent news on the RUU APP, the anti-pornography bill.

Politically minded Muslims are urged not to keep regretting the fact that the state does not have an explicitly Islamic basis.

Eggy Sudjana goes on trial for insulting president Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono.

The editor of the Rakyat Merdeka Online faces criminal prosecution over his website’s publishing of the prophet Muhammad cartoons.

The Majelis Ulama Indonesia (MUI) says there are no regional regulations that apply Islamic law.

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

One of the “Playboy Three”, Andara Early, was questioned again by police and will likely be charged with indecent behaviour.

The attempts by legislators to have Islamic type laws repealed have met with a lukewarm response from the government.

Pressure on the existence of sharia type laws in the provinces grows as fifty-six members of parliament in Jakarta demand their annulment.

There is debate over whether Indonesian Playboy magazine can be considered part of the press or as something else.

The government appears willing to better deal with extremist thuggery.

The constitution of Indonesia says that 20% of the state budget must be spent on education. This year the government is setting the unconstitutional target of 10%.

Los Angeles Times’ writer Richard C. Paddock produces an interesting article on the pornography law.

The proliferation of regional and local laws, and their conflict with national law, receives some attention.

On 9 May, 2006 the UN General Assembly elected Indonesia along with 46 other nations to the Human Rights council.