A smouldering civil war among the elites, Army power plays, and Chinese scapegoats.

The shame of Indonesian football, Bonek, Persebaya Surabaya supporters, run amok.

Cultural protectionism and Big Brother in Indonesian film making law, the UU Perfilman.

Islamic solidarity with the people of Xinjiang, or not, condemning, and getting along with China.

A branch of the Sufi sect Tarekat Naqsyabandiyah is the latest target of the MUI.

Two international reports on police and military brutality and abuses of human rights.

Is Jakarta one of the worst third world hellholes?

Demilitarization in Papua, Aceh, and Maluku, the difficult process of removing military influence in politics.

Sectarian violence over classroom blasphemy allegations in the Central Moluccas near Ambon.

Ross bemoans the fact that FPI leader Habib Rizieq was only jailed for 18 months.

Purba Negoro sees broad sunlit uplands for East Timor-Indonesia relations, and current Australian nefariousness.

Timdog on popular stereotypes about Madura and the Madurese, and the rumoured sexual prowess of the women.

A full translation into English of the somewhat controversial 2008 Indonesian pornography laws.

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

Lairedion on the Dutch state being sued over war crimes at Rawagede, West Java.

Callum foresees rising levels of poverty and social unrest as the consequences for Indonesia of global warming.

Discussion on abuse of Indonesian maids in Singapore and Malaysia, and elsewhere.

Too many elections might be pushing up the divorce rate, with women leading the way.

The horror of pocong films, the Indonesian movie industry's obsession with ghosts.

The World Peace Forum in Jakarta finds out the causes of terrorism and violence in the world.

Well-fed FPI head man Habib Rizieq has plenty of celebrity visitors to keep him company in police lock-up.

Explanations for the FPI violence at Monas, blaming the victims, the government, and foreign plots.

Spew looks back on the May 1998 riots and the issues of mass rapes, anti-Chinese sentiment, and how the rioters came to be judged.

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

A formal banning of the unorthodox Muslim sect Jamaah Ahmadiyah becomes more likely.

Easter celebrations in Indonesia, a service in Bogor is broken up, mayhem in Atambua, everywhere else humdrum.

Lairedion on the banned movie about the Bali bombings, "Promised Paradise".

Tukul Arwana is spreading an immoral virus throughout the country.

Violence and sex at the Institut Pemerintahan Dalam Negeri.

Rates of violence against women.

Some possible reasons for the references to Islam given within Pope Benedict's speech.

Guest writer Sarawut Pratoomraj discusses the similarities in the cases of the murders of two human rights activists, Munir Said Thalib in Indonesia and Somchai Neelaphaijit in Thailand.

According to an organisation called the "Fund for Peace" Indonesia ranks 32nd worst in the list of failed states in the world.

A group of liberal Muslim leaders said at a conference on Saturday that the prevalence of mob rule threatened to cause the break-up of the country.