Authorities in Cianjur take a tough stance, formally, to any possible outbreaks of sectarian type violence.

The ample bosom of singer Dewi Persik causes another national controversy; Dewi threatened with prison time and an FPI home visit.

The internet has the answers. What's behind the persecution of Ariel Peterpan; a survey of the conspiracy theories out there.

Former tax official Gayus Halomoan Tambunan, accused of corruption and embezzlement and currently being held in remand awaiting trial is said to have bribed Police Mobile Brigade officers to allow him to visit the paradise island of Bali for a weekend, to attend a tennis championship.

Idul Fitri prayers at the jail house; an ex-PKS politician goes into raptures over Abu Bakar Baasyir.

Stud Ariel from Peterpan causes national controversy with his Luna Maya/Cut Tari sex tapes.

An Indian expatriate is arrested for insulting the nation and sparking patriotic amok in Batam.

Calls for disbanding of the Satpol PP after violence at Tanjung Priok harbour in Jakarta.

A smouldering civil war among the elites, Army power plays, and Chinese scapegoats.

The shame of Indonesian football, Bonek, Persebaya Surabaya supporters, run amok.

President Yudhoyono's attention focus, the Bibit-Chandra case vs electricity crisis in Jakarta.

The protests and furore over allowing the burial of killed extremists in and around Solo.

Problematic religious schools on Java, which ones and police monitoring of them.

Monitoring Ramadan mosque sermons in the war on terrorism.

Ross finds shameful bigotry in the fair city of Tangerang.

Different approaches to Abu Bakar Bashir from the police and military in Central Java.

Child crime, the convictions of ten boys aged under 16 for playing a gambling game in Tangerang.

Noordin M Top not dead after a Densus 88 raid in Temanggung, in another raid in Bekasi a car bomb is found.

Blasphemous farting attempts in Probolinggo see police swing into action against a kejawenist rebel.

A branch of the Sufi sect Tarekat Naqsyabandiyah is the latest target of the MUI.

Two international reports on police and military brutality and abuses of human rights.

Madrotter on Bandung rockers "Homicide", their music and battles with the FPI.

A drive-by shooting, the anti-corruption chief accused of murder, and a beautiful golf caddy.

Who is behind the recent violence in Aceh, and the sharia laws.

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

A policeman from Aceh as police chief of Bali, and near naked tourists on motorbikes.