The six new fatwas from the Majelis Ulama Indonesia, from vasectomies to abstaining at election time.

Celebrity Islamists, including mother daughter team Emilia Contessa and Denada Tambunan, line up for the Development Party in 2009.

Ross rails that faraway refugees in the Middle East excite more sympathy than refugees in Lombok.

Mixing Sundanese disco music and Islam invites bigotry and later “mediation” in West Java, as Ross finds out.

Ross rails that Gestapo style methods of interrogation are used by the sharia police in Aceh.

Protests against the Israel attacks in the Gaza Strip mirror those over the 2006 Israeli invasion of Lebanon.

Has Megawati got the necessary Islamic credentials to be president, again, or does she like shopping too much.

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

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

The importance of rituals, public signs reminding people about their obligations to perform salaat, daily Muslim prayers.