Over the last month police in Poso, central Sulawesi, have discovered the remains of 700 people killed in sectarian violence in 2000.

The campaign to make the island of Madura a stand-alone province, separate from East Java, continues to gather steam.

Indonesia has been elected a member of the United Nations Human Rights Council at the General Assembly session in New York, joining such heavyweights in the human rights respecting field like Saudi Arabia, Cuba, and China.

A convert to Christianity in the west Java town of Tasikmalaya has been imprisoned for insulting Islam.

The growing application of sharia based laws in the province of South Sulawesi, and elsewhere, is bound up in the role of a group called the Preparatory Committee for the Application of Islamic Laws.

Indonesian police appear to have made a breakthrough in the infamous and appalling case of the beheading murders of three Christian schoolgirls in Poso, Sulawesi last year.

Anti-Chinese feelings in the rough and tumble city of Makassar in south Sulawesi have been aroused over the death of a house-maid in the employ of a Chinese family.

Voices have been raised that the largest Muslim organisation in the country, Nahdlatul Ulama (NU), is moving towards intolerance.

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The question of the listing of religious affiliation national identity cards (KTP).