Power-mongering and the profit motive behind the West’s examples of hypocrisy over human rights

A new book helping Indonesian women to find a white man, How to Catch Mr Bule.

Siti Fadilah Supari, minister for Health.

The gathering storm over Geert Wilders anti-Islam film Fitna.

The lovely Julia Suryakusuma, and other intellectuals, commit treason.

The west feels threatened by the rise of Islam in Indonesia.

The effects of tourism in Bali, neo-colonialist attitudes among western tourists.

What if there had been a communist victory in 1965.

The Indonesian way of death is too graphic.

The guide to living in Jakarta.

Western aid agencies and their gender equity agenda in Indonesia.

Tips for insulting someone, and appropriate comebacks, by Achmad.

The entrance of global culture into Bali and its effects on Hindus.

Achmad worries that Indonesia’s U.F.O. technology will be lost to foreigners.

Metro TV’s Chinese-language news service, Xin Wen.

Ross wonders about Ramadan, lazy rich women, and why kampung girls are the best.

Western-style democracy is not suitable for Indonesia.

Poverty is the cause of terrorism, says a former Muhammadiyah chairman, not Islam.

On the “quality” of expatriates in Indonesia, or expats.

Multi-culturalism, or what Indonesians might call pluralism, is often spoken of as key to Indonesia’s make-up and stability.

The references to Islam given within Pope Benedict’s speech.

As globalization advances strange and interesting mixes of cultures, East and West, are produced.

The Emancipatory Islamic Network, write about the Crusades and get it all wrong.

The Arab-Muslim culture that has been brought to Indonesia is doomed.