Advice on travelling about Jakarta by taxi, Bluebird, Express, Trans Taxi, the good, the bad, and the ugly.

Where president Yudhoyono’s attention is focused, Bibit Chandra KPK corruption case vs electricity crisis in Jakarta.

Whither dangdut mania? The financial woes of television station TPI puts dangdut music under threat.

The furore over allowing the burial of killed extremists in Solo.

Stoning for adultery in Aceh and Tommy Suharto’s political comeback, by Ross, two clouds with silver linings.

Jakarta’s anti-begging law in the light of constitutional free speech.

Ross wonders whether Indonesian students have it right about climate change, their fatalistic view that it is the will of God.

A short story competition on the theme of Islamization and cultural change in modern day Indonesia.

Ross finds shameful bigotry in the fair city of Tangerang.

Ross rails against continued ill treatment of Ahmadiyah people in Lombok.