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

Perceptions of corruption at government departments, and the use of brokers at immigration offices.

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.

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

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.

Two stories of physical abuse of Indonesian maids abroad, in Saudi Arabia and Malaysia.

A film that touches on events of 1965 starring Marcella Zalianty and directed by Eros Djarot runs afoul of the police.