The nation's wise, but flighty, leader President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono cancels a visit to the Netherlands on fears he might be arrested for human rights crimes.

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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.