The following stories talk about the subject ‘West Java’.
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Sectarian mapping of cities to prevent conflict, as another church, in Bekasi, is closed.
Actresses Ayu Azhari and Desy Ratnasari have their sights on political power in Sukabumi, who will win?
Problematic religious schools on Java, which ones and police monitoring of them.
How hot are the fires in hell and how they are full of women.
Noordin M Top not dead after a Densus 88 raid in Temanggung, in another raid in Bekasi a car bomb is found.
Voters in Indramayu are threatened with hellfire unless the Golkar Party is supported in 2009.
Reading and writing in Arabic is a must for civil servants and village heads in Bogor.
Goyang under threat, whether the governor of West Java wants to ban jaipong dance for being too sexy.
Dealing with the Zionist movement and Freemasonry in Bandung, calls for banning of the Rotary & Lions Clubs.
Mixing Sundanese disco music and Islam invites bigotry and later "mediation" in West Java, as Ross finds out.
Local people in Tasikmalaya are roused to action to prevent mysterious cave men rituals.
Indonesian students of Islam encountering western anti-orthodox religion philosophy.
Lairedion on the Dutch state being sued over war crimes at Rawagede, West Java.
Paranormal figure Ki Gendeng Pamungkas enters the world of politics in Bogor.
Ross worries that the next target of Islamic fanatics will be old Javanese figures and traditions.
The MUI attempts to chase the regent of Purwakarta out of town, for a musical analogy.
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The Justice Party's ideology, recent electoral wins, and chances of success for 2009 general and presidential elections.
A church is burned down in Purwakarta, West Java by local people feeling slighted at the lack of response to their protests over its construction.
The Indonesian state remains vigilant against acts of treason and threats to its integrity, serious or otherwise.
Church services in malls, people in West Java are flocking to shopping malls in order to pray.
Impatient people in West Java province who can't wait for the banning of the Ahmadiyah sect.
Islamic parties on track for victory in the West Java election.
Government efforts to regulate the internet and block access to porn websites.
Easter celebrations in Indonesia, a service in Bogor is broken up, mayhem in Atambua, everywhere else humdrum.
Why there are so many attacks on churches in western Java.
Minimum wage rates for 2008 throughout Indonesia.
Ahmadiyah makes changes to its beliefs and avoids being banned by the government.
Rhoma Irama advises Indonesian Muslims to stop fighting each other.
The Wahidiyah movement is attacked in Tasikmalaya.
A Batak church in Tangerang, West Java is attacked.
Banning mystical and alternative medicine on television.
Christianisation through sodomy, hypnosis, and kidnapping is rampant in Indonesia.
Indonesia ranks highly for internet sex searches.
Sex slavery in Indramayu, West Java and Jakarta.
Parliamentarians fear that foreigners are spreading disease in Indonesia.
Rates of violence against women.
The Jakarta MRT, Mass Rapid Transit train system, is planned to open in 2014.
The Al-Zaytun Islamic school has fallen under suspicion of links to Negara Islam Indonesia (NII).
Sundanese cultural groups are vanishing.
The psychic Ki Gendeng Pamungkas has cast his spell on George Bush. The White House has not yet reacted to this disturbing turn of events.
Nissan has committed $60 million over the next few years to increase its market share in Indonesia, and plans to shortly launch the new Livina model.
TVS Motor Company of India sees Indonesia as the base for its operations in South East Asia.
The Royal Doulton Company is happy with its investment in Indonesia and plans to put another $125 million into its operations here.
Textiles producers are being encouraged to modernise their equipment with the offer of subsidies on loan repayments.
Rebekka Zakaria, Eti Pangesti & Ratna Bangun have completed sixteen months of their three-year prison sentence for running a Christian kindergarten in which some Muslim children attended.
The red-light district of Saritem, in Bandung, may be about to be closed.
Some villagers in Sukabumi, West Java force a Mujahidin Council training camp to disperse.
Rich Arab men seeking quickie "marriages", and then quickie divorces, in the resort town of Puncak, near Jakarta, may no longer be welcome.
An official from a body that seeks to educate the public on elections says many local and regional elections are marred by candidates use of religious symbols and language.
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.
A house that was used for church services in the city of Bogor, near Jakarta, has been forced to close due to residents' complaints.
Bandung is in West Java province and West Java has the reputation of being a fairly strict place in terms of the prevailing interpretations of Muslim beliefs and practises.
A speech by an Indonesian police chief on radicalism and national security.
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