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

What Singkawang in Kalimantan is famous for, friendly people and wife selling.

Foreign efforts to eradicate female genital mutilation.

Strange and funny Indonesian sex facts.

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

The campaign to make the island of Madura a stand-alone province, separate from East Java, continues to gather steam. It finds most of its support from conservative Islamic groups and figures.