Louise Williams – Security forces made further arrests at the weekend following last Thursday's Muslim riots west of Jakarta, and new tensions flared in the city of Bandung, where leaflets were dropped calling on Muslims to attack Christian and Catholic targets.

The armed forces reported that unrest was quickly contained in Bandung, an important industrial and university centre about 200 kilometres south-east of Jakarta, after about 10,000 factory workers went on a rampage which left at least 60 cars destroyed.

The factory riot was in protest over the failure of a major textile manufacturer to pay the traditional bonus to mark the end of the Muslim fasting month and was not directly related to a recent wave of attacks by Muslims on Indonesia's minority Chinese and Christian communities.

However, security forces were deployed across the city over the weekend after the discovery of pamphlets calling on Indonesia's majority Muslim population to continue the attacks against Chinese Christians.

Security forces announced new arrests west of Java, where thousands of Muslims rioted last Thursday, bringing the total number of people in detention to 20. An influential social organisation, Kosgoro, which is aligned with the ruling Golkar Party, warned that Indonesia was witnessing an ongoing moral crisis.