The following stories are tagged with the term/s or name/s ‘Sumatra’.
The digital divide in south east Asia, Indonesia still lags well behind its neighbours in internet access.
Police raids on courting and adulterous couples in cheap hotels, forbidden love.
Conspiracy theories among opinion leaders in Sumatra, Zionist and British conspiracies.
List of the various political isms, neo-liberalism, capitalism, imperialism, and colonialism, and materialism.
Syamsul Arifin and Gatot Pujo Nugroho win the North Sumatra election.
Hari Valentine dan hubungannya dengan persekutuan Yahudi.
Valentines Day, as a Jewish conspiracy theory.
What if there had been a communist victory in 1965.
Perlombaan kecantikan Miss Indonesia di Palembang dituduh menyebarkan sipilis.
The Miss Indonesia 2008 beauty pageant in Palembang.
An increase in the current minimum wage in Indonesia.
Stories of cannibals and cannibalism in Sumatra and Papua.
Stories of religious intolerance in Indonesia, involving Islamic schools and mosques being attacked.
A travel horror story set in Sumatra, Indonesia.
Ramalan malapetaka dan banjir untuk Indonesia.
Doomsayers predict disaster for Indonesia as sea levels rise.
Semi theocracy in Bogor and Padang, as the Al-Qiyadah Al-Islamiyah sect is banned.
Sex cinemas, and how non-Muslims should behave during Ramadan.
Pigs and pork eating and touching in Islam.
The government reaches out to heretics.
Policemen go looking for VCD and DVD porn.
One Indonesian, Partahi Mamora Halomoan Lumbantoruan, was killed in the Virginia Tech massacre.
A statue of Noah has North Sumatra on the brink of religious war.
A Pentecostal church in Bangka island, Bangka-Belitung.
Fine art in Pekanbaru loses out to a massage parlor.
A polygamous man is imprisoned for unlawful polygamy.
The Padang government wants school religious textbooks to be more Islamic.
At least 70 people have died in an earthquake in West Sumatra.
The decline of fertility rates in Indonesia and the effects.
An Islamic scholar explains about true and false Islam.
An example of a Muslim dress code and clothing law from West Sumatra.
Dating girls and women in Medan, North Sumatra.
The PP 37, a new law granting pay rises to parliamentarians.
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 bakso may not be sold during the daylight hours.
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 belonging to 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.
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.