The following stories are tagged with the term/s or name/s ‘Sulawesi’.
What if there had been a communist victory in 1965.
Anggota militer dalam politik dan kesiapan masyarakat Indonesia untuk demokrasi.
Military men in politics and whether the Indonesian people are ready for democracy.
Permasalahan Jemaah Islamiyah sebagai organisasi teroris dan ancaman terorisme di Sulawesi Tengah.
Al Jemaah Al Islamiyah, terrorist organisations, and the terror threat in Poso in 2008.
Hotels in Makassar, otherwise called Ujung Pandang, South Sulawesi.
Some of the better hotels in North Sulawesi or northern Celebes, Manado.
Both Islamic militants and Golkar lose in the South Sulawesi election.
Muslims and Christians get along just fine in North Sulawesi.
From Tanatoraja to Javanese, the dying languages of Indonesia.
Remembering the massacre at the Wali Songo School in Poso.
The province of South East Sulawesi is a model of religious harmony.
Twelve Christians from Poso face the death penalty for terrorism.
Hasanuddin in the schoolgirl beheadings case is on trial.
Some Poso residents are urging that the regency be split in two along sectarian lines.
The most wanted man in Poso, Basri, was caught by police.
Modern day jihadists are sinful, says a Central Sulawesi cleric.
Dozens of former Laskar Jihad members are heading to Poso, Central Sulawesi.
Eleven people have died in Poso during shoot-outs with anti-terrorist police.
Maps of Central Sulawesi, central Celebes, including Poso.
Police are focusing on the role of Muslim clerics in the continuing strife in Poso, Central Sulawesi.
The recent violence in Poso is caused by America, says Abu Bakar Ba’asyir.
The former state intelligence chief worries that ex-terrorists may return to their violent ways, and that Arabs are operating in Poso, Central Sulawesi.
One of the twenty-nine men sought by police in Poso is in custody.
The Al Qadariah sect in Gorontalo are pronounced heretical.
The residents of Tanah Runtuh in Poso march to demand the withdrawal of outside police units from Poso, Central Sulawesi.
Some see the roots of the conflict in Poso as a struggle between militarism and democracy.
The Communion of Churches in Indonesia (PGI) recently held a seminar in which participants voiced their complaints about creeping sharia in the provinces.
One civilian was killed in Poso, central Sulawesi, after fighting broke out between police and groups of Muslims.
An LA Times article discusses the “the fear and frustration of being Christian in Indonesia”.
The Gerakan Kemerdekaan Minahasa in North Sulawesi have hopes of independence from Indonesia.
Reverend Irianto Kongkoli, murdered in Palu, Sulawesi, on Monday, was buried today.
A map of the provinces of Sulawesi.
Twelve provinces in Indonesia are thought to have a serious problem with trafficking of women and children.
The A&W fast food store in downtown Manado attempted to force all female employees to wear headscarfs, or jilbabs.
Taking it one step at a time in Makassar, a new law on the sale of alcohol in South Sulawesi has been agreed upon.
Poso in central Sulawesi has been wracked by civil disturbances and bombs the last few days.
Noviana Malewa is still undergoing treatment after a beheading attempt in Sulawesi last year.
The way that the trial and execution of Fabianus Tibo, Marinus Riwu, and Dominggus da Silva was carried out, and its aftermath, may have served to poison relations between some in Indonesia.
Fabianus Tibo, Dominggus Da Silva and Marianus Riwu are due to be executed on Thursday the 21st.
The Ulema Council, Majelis Ulama Indonesia (MUI), says female circumcision is necessary for Muslims.
Cornelius Fabianus Tibo, Dominggus da Silva, and Marinus Riwu are due to be executed fifteen minutes after midnight, Saturday 12th August.
The plans of some militant Muslims to go to fight in Lebanon and the government’s and others’ reactions to them.
The mayor of Bulukumba in south Sulawesi says non-Muslims support the imposition of sharia law in his regency.
The Tentena marketplace bomb, and aftermath,
The authorities of Makassar, South Sulawesi, are tackling the issue of schoolgirl skirt length.
A bomb exploded in the Eklesia church in Poso, central Sulawesi.
Pressure on the existence of sharia type laws in the provinces grows as fifty-six members of parliament in Jakarta demand their annulment.
Some stories from around the country on morality lifting efforts by the authorities and police and the less than pleased response of some.
Over the last month police in Poso, central Sulawesi, have discovered the remains of 700 people killed in sectarian violence in 2000.
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.
Indonesian police appear to have made a breakthrough in the infamous and appalling case of the beheading murders of three Christian schoolgirls in Poso, Sulawesi last year.
Anti-Chinese feelings in the rough and tumble city of Makassar in south Sulawesi have been aroused over the death of a house-maid in the employ of a Chinese family.
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.
Jemaah Islamiyah, JI, is believed to have a two-pronged strategy in its war in Indonesia, that is, it seeks to attack western interests, as well as stoke the fires of sectarian conflict among Indonesians.
The provincial government of South Sulawesi has decided that ability to read the Koran is a must for Muslim citizens.
A group of university students in Yogyakarta went looking for Australians staying in major hotels in the city yesterday, to vent their outrage over the Papuan visa matter and the rude cartoon of the president, and kick the Australians out presumably.
The lovely Zaskia Adya Mecca has been enlisted in an anti-abortion campaign in south Sulawesi.
Smuggling of explosives in Borneo.
Evidence that military figures were involved in the formation of Christian militias in Poso.
Creeping sharia in Indonesian draws protests.
Origins of terrorism in Sulawesi and Ambon.
The impending executions of three Christian men.
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