Whither dangdut mania? Financial woes of TV station TPI puts dangdut music under threat.

The vanishing of burqa clad actress Soraya Abdullah and possible connections to terrorism.

Fatwa on superstitious beliefs in arts and pop culture television.

Are you a fat loser? Do you want to be a fat loser? 'The Biggest Loser Asia' is here.

Ross rails against hospital debt collectors on reality television.

What's the worst sinetron ever? Ross reels at the sight of Hareem.

The Righteous Dude lobs a few ideas for increasing the number of tourists visiting Indonesia.

Photographer Ilham Anas' new career as Barack Obama celebrity lookalike and impersonator.

Celebrity Islamists, including mother daughter team Emilia Contessa and Denada Tambunan, line up for the Development Party in 2009.

Bias in the media, examples of Islamist bias on television have Ross railing.

Indonesia can't get enough of the news that Barack Obama has won the US election.

Justice Party political ads on television, how the PKS is approaching the 2009 election.

Indomie television commercials and homemade videos, marketing and loving Indonesian instant noodles.

Legendary and irreplaceable Queen of horror films, actress Suzanna, saddens the nation with her passing.

The MUI's laundry list of complaints about television programming this Ramadan, including effeminate male roles.

Two aspirants for the presidency, Soetrisno Bachir and Prabowo Subianto, put themselves about.

Homosexual serial killer Ryan of Jombang, eleven victims and counting.

Ross worries that TVRI is cheating the nation out of seeing Dewi Persik and Wong Telu.

Syamsidik says Indonesia gets upset with Malaysia a lot, but the Malaysians don't pay attention.

Lebanese Hizbullah television become available to Indonesian viewers courtesy of Indosat.

Commercialisation of the Hindu festival of Nyepi in Bali and how Muslims should behave during it.

Patronising neo-colonialist attitudes by westerners in Bali.

The Indonesian way of death is too graphic for some.

The role and responsibility of Indonesian television media.

Television programs that violate Islamic law.

Ross on Metro TV's Chinese-language news service, Xin Wen.

Muslim preachers make too many jokes.

Pornography and indecency in Indonesia causes rape and lifetime misery.

The government is to hold a "Visit Indonesia Year" in 2008.

Banning mystical and alternative medicine on television.

Dealing with pornography and protecting children.

Tukul Arwana is spreading an immoral virus throughout the country.

TV advertisements must be all Indonesian content.

The Indonesian Idol competition has begun.

The long vs. short hair debate occupies the mind of Dian Sastro.

Foreign radio and television broadcasts should be censored, say some leaders.

Eight television stations may be prosecuted for screening violent, mystical, and sexually oriented programs.

Tamara Bleszynski's child has begun to hate his mother, it is said.

Wayang should be promoted as an alternative to violent television shows such as SmackDown, says Jusuf Kalla.

Television stations show too many soap operas with stories of romance in high schools, says a religious leader.

Calls are growing for the banning of American wrestling shows on television.

The Majelis Ulama Indonesia (MUI) advises what should not appear on television screens during the upcoming "holy month" of Ramadan.

Members of the Nahdlatul Ulama (NU) are threatening to boycott television, unless they get their way on the gossip show issue.

The Broadcasting Commission is examining the question of "porno" on cable television channels.

An analyst complains that television news programs are overly interested in matters of theology and religious doctrine.

The Nahdlatul Ulama's fatwa against television gossip shows.

The depiction of religiously observant Muslims on television has increased greatly in recent years but some remain unhappy at the stereotypical nature of such depiction.

Andhara Early, formerly a little known TV presenter, has made a good career move in her choice to bare not quite all in the first edition of Indonesian Playboy.

Sandrina Malakiano and jilbab wearing.

The lovely Zaskia Adya Mecca has been enlisted in an anti-abortion campaign in south Sulawesi.

The peculiarities of Indonesian soap opera.