The following stories talk about the subject ‘Lombok’.
Ross rails against continued neglect of Ahmadiyah people in Lombok.
RD consults another source for travel advice.
What lonely women want, what adults get up to, Sasak singers get in trouble for suggesting answers.
Want to get away and lie on a beach? Read on.
The Righteous Dude wonders about travel writers’ priorities when selecting Indonesian tourist attraction highlights.
Ross rails that faraway refugees in the Middle East excite more sympathy than refugees in Lombok.
Ross complains that the government is trying to restrict the activities of the wrong people, Ahmadiyah instead of Muslim militants.
Marrying off old and poor people and those living in sin, it's mass wedding ceremony season.
Julia Perez distributes free condoms with her latest musical masterpiece, "Kamasutra".
Timdog on world religions and local beliefs in Nusa Tenggara.
Ross continues to be infuriated by the lovely Julia Suryakusuma, and other intellectuals.
What if the Indonesian Communist Party (PKI) had taken over in 1965.
The nature of the massacres of 1965-66.
Indonesian Muslims are urged to defend their practice of Islam against accusations of paganism.
Whose side are the security forces on? asks Ross.
Sufi heretics in Lombok, of the Abu Yazid al Bustami group, fall foul of the mob and the police.
Attempting to forbid sinful activities, such as drinking, harms the growth of tourism in Muslim areas.
Lombok Muslims keep up the pressure on deviant Islamic sects as the homes of Salafiyah members are attacked in the west of the island.
Sexy dancer Inul Daratista is not welcome in the righteous town of Mataram, in Lombok.
The fundamentalist Wahabi brand of Islam may not be so welcome in Indonesia after all.
The battle over the anti-pornography and public display of sexuality bill is far from over. Today tens of thousands of Muslims rallied in the capital of Lombok island, Mataram, and were addressed by the mayor of that fair city, who said that women who dressed sexy were asking to be raped.
A scholarly paper looks at the process of Islamicization of the people of northern Lombok.
About 300 people, mostly women, took to the streets on Saturday in a loud protest against the antipornography bill, which they said degraded women, insulted many local cultures and threatened tourism.
Ahmadiyah homes attacked in Lombok.
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