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Demilitarization in Papua, Aceh, and Maluku, the difficult process of removing military influence in politics.

Sectarian violence over classroom blasphemy allegations in the Central Moluccas near Ambon.

Ross questions the motives of Islamic groups' sensitivity over Papua.

The Indonesian state remains vigilant against acts of treason and threats to its integrity, serious or otherwise.

Minimum wage rates for 2008 throughout Indonesia.

Malaysian theft of the "Rasa Sayange" song.

Women are not allowed in the Sultan mosque in Ternate.

Ross asks whether Indonesia needs a federal system, amid the separatist hysteria of late.

Indonesia has suffered a great number of insults to its pride and integrity recently.

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

Jafar Umar Thalib of Laskar Jihad regrets the use of religion by terrorists.

The Ambon bomb blast which injured 14 people and who was behind it.

Whose side are the security forces on? asks Ross.

Oil production is forecast to continue to fall.

Muslim extremists and radicals misunderstand their religion, says a senior cleric.

Some see the roots of the conflict in Poso as a struggle between militarism and democracy.

A mosque in a mainly Christian village in Ambon has recently been rebuilt.

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

The law in Ambon city enforces respect for Muslim customs, as it does in Padang, West Sumatra.

Attempting to forbid sinful activities, such as drinking, harms the growth of tourism in Muslim areas.

Waai village in central Maluku, destroyed in the sectarian war of 2001, rebuilds.

Residents of Pattimura in Ambon, Maluku have surrendered large amounts of weaponry to the authorities.

Indonesia remains on the "Watch List" in the United States Commission on International Religious Freedom report for 2006.

The United States Department of State Office of the Coordinator for Counterterrorism country report for Indonesia, April 2006.

Jemaah Islamiyah, JI, is believed to have a two-pronged strategy in its war in Indonesia, that is, it seeks to attack western interests, as well as stoke the fires of sectarian conflict among Indonesians.

The Partai Damai Sejahtera, PDS, says that they do not want to be viewed as a religious party.

All girl pop group, "Moluccas", had intended to title their second album "Naked" but re-thought the matter, not because they realised that it was in bad taste, but for fear of police action amid the new climate of moral strictness in Jakarta.

The province of Maluku, the scene of a civil war only a few years ago, is now safe for visiting.

The violence that occurred in Ambon, Maluku between the police and army, which we looked at in the Ambon shootings story, has its origins in a number of factors, both long term trends and recent events.

Tensions have risen in the religiously divided island of Ambon in Maluku province with a number of shootings over the past few days.

A number of Muslim militants are currently on trial in the city of Ambon, province of Maluku, scene of an inter-religious war from around 2000 to 2004.

Origins of terrorism in Sulawesi and Ambon.

The trials and appeals of Enceng Kurnia, Ahmad Rofiq Ridho, and Purnama Putra.