A plea to defend Jamaah Ahmadiyah against a modern day witch hunt.

The lovely Julia Suryakusuma, and other intellectuals, commit treason.

Sharia inspired bylaws in Indonesia.

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

Islamic law hinders reconstruction in Aceh.

Singer Rebecca Suyati Reijman falls afoul of Islamic law in Aceh at a Nidji concert.

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 holy obligations, or as a state-enforced system.

Sharia, caning, and violations of human rights.

Women university students in tight clothing.

Young men and women are still fraternizing freely in Aceh.

Indonesians have conservative moral values and beliefs and so sharia based laws are natural.

Building a new Islamic Caliphate.

Tarmizi Taher on building mosques and filling them.

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

A young boy and girl in Aceh are caned.

Muslim prayers in Aceh on Fridays.

Baiturrahman mosque in Banda Aceh.

Waria who work in hair dressing salons.

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

The Indonesian Islamic State (NII, Negara Islam Indonesia) movement.

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

Hidayat Nur Wahid on the beauty and ugliness of sharia.

Putting criminals in prison is primitive, says Abu Bakar Bashir.

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 president Yudhoyono, and advise him.

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

Aceh doesn’t have enough qualified judges for its sharia law 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 sharia based financial 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 Euro MP, Hartmut Nassauer.

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, gays, lesbians, and bisexuals in Indonesia.

The International Religious Freedom Report 2006 for Indonesia 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, enforced by the Wilayatul Hisbah.

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 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.

Indonesia remains on the “Watch List” in the United States Commission on International Religious Freedom report for 2006.

Syafi’i Anwar, of the International Centre for Islam and Pluralism (ICIP), remarks on the growing demand for sharia based law in provincial areas of Indonesia.

Whether to apply Islamic law to non-Muslims in Aceh, like Christians.

The provincial government of South Sulawesi has decided that ability to read the Koran is a must for Muslim citizens.

Mardiyah Chamim, an Indonesian journalist, writes about her experiences of the application of sharia, or syariah, law in the province of Aceh in northern Sumatra.

Two leading Islamic intellectual figures discuss sharia, and the nature of Islam in south east Asia as compared to the middle eastern form.

It’s common practise for analysts of Indonesian politcal affairs to divide parties into two groups, Islamist, and secular.

The municipality of Tangerang, an industrial satelite city of Jakarta with about 3 million unfortunate inhabitants, has passed a number of draconian laws against prostitution and drinking.

Support for Sharia & Islamic Radicalism.

Aceh Caning Picture.

The latest foray in this area sees the local government attempt to ban the selling of food during Friday prayers.

The Constitutional Court President speaks on the sharia issue.

A public caning in Aceh.

Sharia laws in Padang, Sumatra.

Creeping sharia in Indonesian draws protests.

Sharia laws in Aceh on female dress.

Allianz Indonesia is planning to offer sharia life insurance policies.

Examples of Muslim radicalism in 2005.

Islamic leaders in the Indonesian province of Aceh have claimed that aid and charity workers are secretly attempting to convert the Acehenese to Christianity.

Disrespect for law in Indonesia.