On 8th November about 15 white clad men descended on the Ganjuran Sacred Heart Church in Sumbermulyo village, Bambanglipuro, Bantul, Yogyakarta, and demanded that dozens of Merapi volcano refugees that were being given shelter in the church, – those of them who were Muslim, – leave forthwith.

Mixing Sundanese disco music and Islam invites bigotry and later “mediation” in West Java, as Ross finds out.

Ross continues to be infuriated by the lovely Julia Suryakusuma, and other intellectuals.

Muslims converting to Bahai.

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.