‘The Amazing Race’ visits a different “running of the bulls” in Madura, East Java.

Legalised gambling in Indonesia a boon to state revenue or creator of social misery.

Child crime, the convictions of ten boys aged under 16 for playing a gambling game in Tangerang.

What lonely women want, what adults get up to, Sasak singers get in trouble for suggesting answers.

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

The Front Pembela Islam are back in action, raiding places and publicly shaming sinners.

Government efforts to regulate the internet and block access to porn websites.

Americans are not the only people who conduct wars on social ills. Muslims in Indonesia are right up there in this respect as seen in the recent campaign against gambling dens in Jakarta, and it appears, the island of Batam, off Singapore, as well.