Lacklustre televised presidential debates are a ruling class ruse, rails Ross.

Press freedom issues over an alleged money politics scandal involving Edhie Baskoro Yudhoyono.

The magical faith healing stone of young boy Ponari is big business for a small village in East Java.

Bias in the media, examples of Islamist bias on television have Ross railing.

Beautiful, possibly thuggish actress Marcella Zalianty, the last moments of a celebrity goat, and creative use of cutlery.

A tale of two not very likeable characters - Roy Suryo reports Dewa 19 & Ahmad Dhani to the police for flag desecration.

MUI leader Cholil Ridwan says Kompas newspaper is a western papist tool for attacking Islam.

Another English language newspaper launches, the Jakarta Globe.

How much coverage Indonesia gets in the major newspapers of the world, like the New York Times.

A full translation into English of the somewhat controversial 2008 Indonesian pornography laws.

Two aspirants for the presidency, Soetrisno Bachir and Prabowo Subianto, put themselves about.

Homosexual serial killer Ryan of Jombang, eleven victims and counting.

Ross sees sinister motives behind renewed debate over the death penalty.

Syamsidik says Indonesia gets upset with Malaysia a lot, but the Malaysians don't pay attention.

Ross complains that the government is trying to restrict the activities of the wrong people, Ahmadiyah instead of Muslim militants.

Spew looks back on the May 1998 riots and the issues of mass rapes, anti-Chinese sentiment, and how the rioters came to be judged.

Lebanese Hizbullah television become available to Indonesian viewers courtesy of Indosat.

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

The president continues his musings on religion, and islamophobia among Australians and Balinese.

Lairedion on the banned movie about the Bali bombings, "Promised Paradise".

Commercialisation of the Hindu festival of Nyepi in Bali and how Muslims should behave during it.

Presiden Yudhoyono meminta kepada media untuk tidak memberitakan berita yang tidak sepatutnya.

President Yudhoyono asks the media to not report inappropriate news stories.

Budaya Muslim-Arab yang telah dimasukkan ke Indonesia akan menemui ajalnya.

The Indonesian way of death is too graphic for some.

The nature of the massacres of 1965-66.

Sejumlah cara untung-untungan yang dipakai orang Indonesia untuk cari duit di internet.

The role and responsibility of Indonesian television media.

The 'beta' version of "Top 100" Indonesian blogs list. Read more or go straight there.

Television programs that violate Islamic law.

The Batam airwaves are often a mix of foreign and religious content.

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

Ross on Metro TV's Chinese-language news service, Xin Wen.

Pornography and indecency in Indonesia causes rape and lifetime misery.

Registering dot co id domains has become easier.

The President is accused of being a closet polygamist.

Banning mystical and alternative medicine on television.

Indonesian books banned in Malaysia.

Much of the media in Indonesia is bad quality, pornographic and unprofitable.

Dealing with pornography and protecting children.

Tukul Arwana is spreading an immoral virus throughout the country.

TV advertisements must be all Indonesian content.

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

The Indonesian Idol competition has begun.

Indonesia ranks highly for internet sex searches.

Police crack down on the playing of online Bola Tangkas.

Popular magazine, as compared to Playboy.

Dating websites for Indonesians and some of the female profiles.

A classic headline from the Jakarta Post.

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

Internet porn sites should be blocked by the government, say religious leaders.

Indonesia's press freedom level remains fairly low.

The fires of the Lapindo gas explosion in Sidoarjo spell out the name of Allah, or a seahorse.

The top 100 websites viewed from Indonesia.

Eight television stations may be prosecuted for screening violent, mystical, and sexually oriented programs.

The trial of Playboy editor Erwin Arnada.

Wayang should be promoted as an alternative to violent television shows such as SmackDown, says Jusuf Kalla.

Television stations show too many soap operas with stories of romance in high schools, says a religious leader.

Calls are growing for the banning of American wrestling shows on television.

The Jakarta Post website and Chinese porn.

"Golkar not to repeat funny convention" says Antara.

A Christian radio station in North Sumatra wins a license to operate, in spite of the pessimism of its owners over the prospects of doing so.

Antara advertises a planned anti-Zionist, pro-Palestinian march by an obscure group in Lampung.

The Majelis Ulama Indonesia (MUI) advises what should not appear on television screens during the upcoming "holy month" of Ramadan.

The national news agency makes a fool of itself, and the country.

Members of the Nahdlatul Ulama (NU) are threatening to boycott television, unless they get their way on the gossip show issue.

The Broadcasting Commission is examining the question of "porno" on cable television channels.

The pain felt by the Palestinians is spreading across the world like a virus, Antara tells us.

Some of the creators of the jihadist website, www.anshar.net, have been arrested in Semarang, and, it turns out, Imam Samudra is still busy directing the jihad from his prison cell, via internet chat rooms.

An analyst complains that television news programs are overly interested in matters of theology and religious doctrine.

The Nahdlatul Ulama's fatwa against television gossip shows.

The chairman of the Ulema Council, the Majelis Ulama Indonesia (MUI), has asked the government to ban Playboy magazine.

The editor of the Rakyat Merdeka Online faces criminal prosecution over his website's publishing of the prophet Muhammad cartoons earlier this year.

The legal manouverings of the Islamic Defenders Front become even more bizarre as famous singer Krisdayanti is reported to the police for appearing in an advertisment in the third edition of Playboy.

As the third edition of Indonesian Playboy comes out two men from the Islamic Defenders Front, FPI, go on trial for an instance of their earlier battle with the magazine.