Sectarian mapping of cities to prevent conflict, as another church, in Bekasi, is closed.

Mystics and Islamists battle it out in a Javanese village, Andrew Beatty’s “A Shadow Falls”.

Two clouds with silver linings, Tommy Suharto’s bid for Golkar, and sharia stoning laws in Aceh.

Short story competition on the culture wars, Timdog and Ross go head to head.

Ross finds shameful bigotry in the fair city of Tangerang.

Who is behind the recent violence in Aceh, and the sharia laws.

Ross sees parallels between the Justice Party/PKS, and the PKI of old.

Celebrity Islamists, including mother daughter team Emilia Contessa and Denada Tambunan, line up for the Development Party in 2009.

Ross rails that faraway refugees in the Middle East excite more sympathy than refugees in Lombok.

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