The following stories talk about the subject ‘Violence’.
Two international reports on Indonesian police brutality and military abuses of human rights.
Is Jakarta one of the top ten worst cities in the world to live in?
Demilitarization in Papua, Aceh, and Maluku, the difficult process of removing military influence in politics.
Sectarian violence over classroom blasphemy allegations in Masohi, the Central Moluccas, involving Welhelmina Holle and Asmara Wasahua.
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 the history, culture, and popular urban myths and stereotypes about Madura and the Madurese.
An English transliteration of Indonesian porn laws.
List of complaints about television programming this Ramadan, including effeminate male roles.
The Dutch state being sued over war crimes at Rawagede, West Java.
Callum foresees rising levels of poverty and social unrest as the effects on Indonesia of global warming.
Discussion on abuse of Indonesian maids in Singapore and Malaysia.
The divorce rate and reasons for divorce, and why women lead the way.
The horror of pocong films in the Indonesian movie industry.
The World Peace Forum in Jakarta finds out the causes of terrorism and violence in the world.
FPI leader Habib Rizieq Shihab and his famous supporters.
Explanations for the FPI violence at Monas, blaming the victims and others, the government, and the CIA.
The May 1998 riots in Jakarta and other Indonesian cities, mass rapes, anti-Chinese sentiment, and how the rioters came to be viewed.
Conspiracy theories among opinion leaders in Sumatra, Zionist and British conspiracies.
A formal ban on Ahmadiyah gets closer.
Easter celebrations in Indonesia, a service in Bogor is broken up, mayhem in Atambua.
The banned movie about the Bali bombings, Promised Paradise.
Violence and sex at the Institut Pemerintahan Dalam Negeri, IPDN.
Rates of violence against women.
The references to Islam given within Pope Benedict’s speech.
The similarities in the cases of the murders of two human rights activists, Munir Said Thalib in Indonesia and Somchai Neelaphaijit in Thailand.
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.
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