Jun 19, 2019 Last Updated 4:30 AM, Jun 18, 2019

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Religion

Breaking out!

DJOHAN EFFENDI explores the paradox of young progressives in Indonesia's most traditional Islamic organisation.

Rationality and the clitorectomy

A Spanish enquirer gets the catechism in an exclusive Jakarta suburb. MARGARET COFFEY was there too.

A local hero

To Jakarta, he is an enigma. To the Madurese, he holds out hope for a better society. GERRY VAN KLINKEN goes to the grass-roots.

Godly men in green

Abri officers are becoming more Islamic, but many do not want their Islam to become a political tool for the administration, according to MARCUS MIETZNER.

Travels in West Timor

SIMON ANDREWARTHA discovers a quiet invasion by outsiders, even in the remotest villages.

No nightmares in Aceh

No nightmares in Aceh

Acehnese have no word for nightmare, but the trauma of the conflict years is nightly visited upon many survivors through their dreams.

Inside the Laskar Jihad

An interview with the leader of a new, radical and militant sect

Towards a New Papua

When they hear the sacred texts of the church, Papuans see a better future

Radical or reformist?

How Islamic will the new movements make Indonesia?

Laskar Jihad

A spiritual home for the lost, this militant sect is used by dangerous elites for their own ends

A syncretistic Jew

Learning from Indonesian religious experience

Celebrate for peace

Reclaiming public ritual can help resolve conflict

Ritual, politics and tourism

Ritual purification ceremonies have dominated Balinese recovery efforts

Preaching fundamentalism

The public teachings of Abu Bakar Ba'asyir

My pesantren, Darur Ridwan

Life in an East Javanese Islamic boarding school

Reconciling NU and the PKI

An Interview with Pak Imam Aziz, Program Coordinator, Syarikat

Reforming pesantren

While reform of Islamic education is necessary, secularisation is not

Land, church and state

Forestry business packaged in ecological concerns in Flores

Running for office

A Christian candidate for a Muslim party in North Maluku

Women and syariah in Aceh

(Michael Renner/Flickr)

Aceh’s women find themselves between an armed conflict and Islamic law

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