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Indonesia’s head of counterterrorism sa …

thabet — Thu, 18 Sep 2008 18:54:30 +0000

Indonesia’s head of counterterrorism says the role of Western governments in Iraq and Afghanistan has made it harder for Muslims to fight terrorism.

Fatemeh — Wed, 17 Sep 2008 04:12:09 +0000

While AKI has the issue all wrong (like threatening tourism is the real problem here), it reports that Indonesia’s parliament is considering a bill that will define pornography as “acts that incite sexual desire.” That’s a pretty wide net to cast, chaps.

That includes:

“…sexual materials in the form of drawings, sketches, illustrations, photographs, text, sound, moving pictures, animation, cartoons, poetry, conversations or any other form of communicative messages.”

Update: a post on the negative effects of this law.

i have never trusted exxonmobil

thabet — Thu, 28 Aug 2008 07:39:59 +0000

A US judge has ordered that ExxonMobil must face a lawsuit launched by Indonesian villagers. The villagers, from Aceh, say the oil giant has contributed to human rights abuses committed by Indonesian military personnel.

(Via the WSJ Law Blog.)

Radical Muslim and Christian groups stok …

thabet — Mon, 21 Jul 2008 14:12:07 +0000

Radical Muslim and Christian groups stoke the embers of Papua’s conflict.

Note the involvement of American Protestant churches in this region — not dissimilar to Saudi-funded Salafi preachers in the West…

Islam Waktu Telu, a mixture of Islam and …

aziz — Thu, 10 Jul 2008 12:01:37 +0000

Islam Waktu Telu, a mixture of Islam and ancestor and spirit worship, remains alive on the island of Lombok, in Indonesia.

A report by the International Crisis Gro …

thabet — Mon, 07 Jul 2008 20:12:00 +0000

A report by the International Crisis Group says ‘hardline Muslim groups in Indonesia are gaining greater influence over government policy’.

Indscribe is scathing on the matter of t …

aziz — Wed, 11 Jun 2008 13:38:03 +0000

Indscribe is scathing on the matter of the mass protests against the Ahmadiyyas in Indonesia.

It is sad to see the energies of Muslims getting channelised in the wrong way. No wonder, a columnist had remarked that all Muslim countries together haven’t achieved anything in magnitude compared to the achievements of a tiny country like Korea.

http://tinyurl.com/5gvmnj

President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono signe …

thabet — Mon, 09 Jun 2008 20:39:08 +0000

President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono signed a decree Monday ordering members of a minority Muslim sect to stop practicing their form of Islam or face arrest.