The orangutans in Borneo and Sumatra, destruction of their habitat, and efforts to help them.

The number of islands Indonesia has and whether some of them are for sale.

The Righteous Dude recommends inter-city trains for tourists, and maybe locals too.

A teenage Australian girl from sunny Queensland finds Islam in Lampung and becomes a revert.

Indonesia still lags well behind its neighbours in proportion of people with internet access.

Police in some areas are keeping up the pressure on courting and adulterous couples, by raiding night spots and cheap hotels.

Conspiracy theories among opinion leaders in Sumatra, American-Zionist and British conspiracies.

The various ism problems that Indonesia faces, neo-liberalism, capitalism, imperialism, colonialism, and materialism.

The PKS continues its mini winning streak in regional elections, this time in North Sumatra.

Hari Valentine dan hubungannya dengan persekutuan Yahudi.

Whether Valentine's Day is a Jewish conspiracy.

What if the Indonesian Communist Party (PKI) had taken over in 1965.

Perlombaan Miss Indonesia di Palembang dituduh menyebarkan sipilis.

The Miss Indonesia beauty contest in Palembang is accused of spreading syphilis.

Minimum wage rates for 2008 throughout Indonesia.

Cannibalism in Sumatra and Papua.

It's the season for attacks on mosques and Islamic schools in West Java.

A travel horror story from Iamisaid.

Ramalan malapetaka untuk Indonesia selagi tingakatan air laut meninggi.

Doomsayers predict disaster for Indonesia as sea levels rise.

Mini theocracy in Bogor and Padang.

Sex cinemas, and how non-Muslims should behave during Ramadan.

Pig and pork eating issues in the news in Sumatra.

The government reaches out to heretics.

Policemen in Padang go looking for VCD and DVD porn.

One Indonesian, Partahi Mamora Halomoan Lumbantoruan, was killed in the Virginia Tech massacre.

Plans to build the (almost) tallest statue in the world have North Sumatra on the brink of religious war.

Building a Pentecostal church in Bangka-Belitung.

Fine art loses out to a massage parlor.

A man is imprisoned for unlawful polygamy.

The Padang government wants school religious textbooks to be more Islamically correct.

Over 80 people have died in an earthquake in West Sumatra.

The decline of fertility rates and the problems this may cause.

An Islamic scholar explains about true and false Islam.

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

Dating girls and women in Medan, North Sumatra.

New contributor Ross McKay discusses the "PP 37", a new law granting pay rises to parliamentarians.

Hizbut Tahrir Indonesia (HTI) champions polygamy and rails against gender equality and domestic violence laws.

An Islamic court in West Sumatra puts on trial Aa Gym and Yahya Zaini.

Jambi police are keeping an eye out for striptease shows on New Year's Eve.

Combating sin is the top priority for West Sumatra governor Gamawan Fauzi in 2007.

It's time for a Javanese to become governor of North Sumatra, some say.

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.

A Christian radio station in North Sumatra wins a license to operate, in spite of the pessimism of its owners over the prospects of doing so.

The Samaritan's Purse group are not welcome in North Sumatra.

The law in Ambon city enforces respect for Muslim customs, as it does in Padang, West Sumatra.

Theocracy in action in West Sumatra as the city government of Padang teams up with the Majelis Ulama Indonesia (MUI), and the mob, to close down a mosque used by the heretics of the Jamiyatul Islamiyah.

A house used as a church in Aceh was burned to the ground by a mob.

The Ulema Council, Majelis Ulama Indonesia (MUI), says female circumcision is necessary for Muslims.

Muslim clerics in West Sumatra are to be provided with a salary by the provincial government.

The plans of some militant Muslims to go to fight in Lebanon and the government's and others' reactions to them.

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

Students wishing to enter junior high schools in Padang, Sumatra, must in future provide a certificate that proves their ability to read and write in Arabic.

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.

The Babur Ridho religious school in Medan, north Sumatra, is accused of deviant, mystical, Islamic teachings. The Indonesian Ulema Council, always vigilant against anything that smells of heresy, is investigating.

A proposal by the government Family Planning body to install two condom vending machines in west Sumatra province has met with the stern resistance of the local branch of the Majelis Ulama Indonesia (MUI), Indonesian Ulema Council.

Sharia laws in Padang, Sumatra.

Creeping sharia in Indonesian draws protests.

A transvestite contest causes a stir in Sumatra.