Whether barongsai Chinese lion dancing is banned in Aceh, or just a misunderstanding.

State imposed religiosity and conformity, or freedom from woeful ignorance of holy texts.

Wailing and gnashing of teeth in Aceh over the shameless Putri Indonesia 2009.

Two clouds with silver linings, Tommy Suharto's bid for Golkar, and sharia stoning laws in Aceh.

Whether to ban "nikah siri" informal marriages, Rhoma Irama and Abu Bakar Bashir are on opposite sides.

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

Is political Islam down and out in 2009? Islamic parties look for reasons for their failure.

Ross sees parallels between the Justice Party/PKS, and the PKI of old.

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

Ross on the bigotry of teachers of religion in Islamic schools, ideological jilbabs, and Dewi Persik.

The US financial crisis opens the door for alternative economic models, like sharia finance.

Ross on sharia lite in Tangerang and Mayor Wahidin Halim's re-election bid.

Religious leaders in Aceh worry about what young people are getting up to before, during, and probably after, Ramadan.

Perseus on Francis Fukuyama and whether Islamism will derail Indonesia's new democracy.

How the Sharia authorities of Aceh persuade citizens to get on with their religious obligations.

A Betawi figure worries that many immigrants to Jakarta are too narrow in their cultural perspective.

The Sharia Banking Act is passed into law, and opposition to it from Christian legislators.

Sadanand Dhume's My Friend the Fanatic - Travels with an Indonesian Islamist.

Rogue Wan sees sinister forces behind the anti-Jamaah Ahmadiyah witch hunt.

Ross continues to be infuriated by the lovely Julia Suryakusuma, and other intellectuals.

Ross fumes against sharia byelaws in Indonesia.

The Finance Ministry's $1 billion sharia bond issue.

Islamic law hinders reconstruction in Aceh.

Islamic law helps tourism in Aceh.

Centrist political leaders, young and old, criticise religion based laws.

Singer Rebecca Reijman falls afoul of Islamic law in Aceh.

Sharia can be applied without making Indonesia an Islamic state.

Ross asks whether the government is willing to bring some Muslims into the 21st century.

Sharia as a set of personal obligations, or as a state-enforced system.

Sharia, caning, and violations of human rights.

Women university students in tight clothing, or not.

Young men and women are still mixing freely in Aceh.

So-called sharia laws are no threat to Indonesian unity, Indonesians are just conservative.

Building a new Islamic Caliphate.

Tarmizi Taher on building mosques and what to fill them with.

A sharia policeman in Aceh is caught in toilet sex with a teenage girl.

An amorous young couple in Aceh are given the lash.

The men of Aceh are not fulfilling their Friday prayer obligations.

Baiturrahman mosque enforces strict dress codes for visitors.

Transvestites in Aceh who work in hairdressing salons risk losing their jobs.

Constitutional court head Jimly Asshiddiqie on harmonising Islamic law and Indonesian law.

A PKS politician is prevented from boarding a flight to Canada.

Action is urged against the Indonesian Islamic State (NII, Negara Islam Indonesia) movement.

Citizens of Aceh are starting to enforce sharia laws by themselves.

Hidayat Nurwahid on the beauty and ugliness of sharia.

Putting criminals in prison is primitive, says ABB.

Women cannot be judges under sharia law, says a senior Egyptian judge.

Sharia in Aceh is non-negotiable, says a young cleric.

Abu Bakar Bashir attempts to meet the president, and advise him.

An example of a Muslim dress code law from West Sumatra.

Aceh doesn't have enough qualified judges for its sharia courts.

Artists in Pamekasan, Madura protest a law against the staging of theatrical and other entertainment shows.

Regional branches of the Ulema Council are urged not to be limp-wristed about encouraging local sharia laws.

Jusuf Kalla says a syariah based banking system will better create prosperity.

The sharia police of Aceh have begun a month long campaign against unIslamic behaviour.

It is proposed that thieves in Aceh have their hands amputated.

Investment and international relations could be harmed by sharia laws, says a Euro MP.

The Padang government enforces an "Islamic" dress code for students and forbids women from going out at night alone.

The Communion of Churches in Indonesia (PGI) recently held a seminar in which participants voiced their complaints about creeping sharia in the provinces.

Regional laws based on Islamic sharia and their effect on homosexuals.

The International Religious Freedom Report 2006 by the American Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor.

A survey says over a third of Indonesian Muslims desire an Islamic state, while half don't, among other things.

The religious police in Aceh were caught peeping through bedroom windows at the World Food Programme headquarters in Banda Aceh.

As two people are caned for adultery in Aceh a report comes out claiming that women and the poor are victimised by sharia law in the province.

Sexual immorality is the enemy of not only Muslims in Indonesia but also Christians, says a senior religious leader.

The mayor of Bulukumba in south Sulawesi says non-Muslims support the imposition of sharia law in his regency.

The Partai Bulan Bintang (PBB), or Crescent Star Party, is holding its national conference and the issue of sharia law is on the minds of the leadership of this Islamic party.

The Jakarta Post continues its lone battle against sharia.

Abu Bakar Ba'asyir says the leaders of the country put their souls at risk by not applying Islamic sharia law.

Parliamentarians have agreed to drop the sharia issue while vice president Jusuf Kalla continues to offer his thoughts on the matter.

The attempts by legislators to have Islamic type laws repealed have met with a lukewarm response from the government.

Pressure on the existence of sharia type laws in the provinces grows as fifty-six members of parliament in Jakarta demand their annulment.

Nahdlatul Ulama (NU) is the largest Muslim body in the country and is chiefly responsible for the reputation of Indonesia as a place of moderate Islam. Its current leader, Hasyim Muzadi, gives his opinions on the sharia debate.

The campaign to make the island of Madura a stand-alone province, separate from East Java, continues to gather steam. It finds most of its support from conservative Islamic groups and figures.

The growing application of sharia based laws in the province of South Sulawesi, and elsewhere, is bound up in the role of a group called the Preparatory Committee for the Application of Islamic Laws.