Safeguarding tolerance in Semarang Police and interfaith activists are helping defuse tension and safeguard minority expression Read more
A kinder, more gentle FPI? The historically hardline defenders of Islam plan to enter the political mainstream by softening their rhetoric and abandoning hate speech Read more
Blasphemy on the rise As blasphemy convictions increase in this democratic era, election campaigning indicates little will change Read more
Sectarianism, culture and politics An emerging conservative Muslim coalition is a force to be reckoned with in Indonesian politics Read more
Gambling with truth Aceh’s Commission for Truth and Reconciliation has an important, though delicate, mission ahead Read more
Islam and citizenship Organisations like Wahdah Islamiyah envision an ‘Islamic’ citizenship for Indonesia Read more
Imagining a nation divided Aceh Singkil’s recent church burning may reflect common ways Indonesians have linked religion and region Read more
Bridging the divide after conflict A recent visit to Ambon shows that trade is helping to bridge the divide in a religiously segregated society Read more
What gives rise to moral outrage? Rather than being merely the result of religious extremism, recent cases of moral outrage point to a wide range of current political and social problems Read more
For the good of the people? The challenges of governing ‘societal organisations’ pose difficult questions for Indonesian democracy Read more
Front stage with the PKS At its upmarket congress, Indonesia’s biggest Islamic party tried but failed to convince it has become an open and inclusive party Read more
Praying across borders Doctrinal borders that divide traditionalist and modernist Muslims in Banjarmasin are breaking down, but slowly Read more
Supporting syariah, advancing women The life and work of an Islamic teacher in Aceh shows that the struggle for gender equality is about much more than syariah. Read more
New leadership, new policies? The Nahdlatul Ulama congress in Makassar arrests the slide away from liberal views but shows the organisation's vulnerability to outside political interference Read more
God and democracy A Christian church is asserting its democratic rights by suing the mayor of Depok Read more
Inside the Laskar Jihad From the Archives Greg Fealy (ii65: Jan-Mar 2001) interviews the leader of a new, radical and militant sect Read more
Killing for God When Nahdlatul Ulama members killed communists, they believed they were doing it for God Read more