Bangkalan, Madura – The regional coordinator of the Madura Ulema Association in Bangkalan has come out in support of a proposed bylaw that would require female students to wear Islamic

Jakarta – Leaders of various religious groups as well as anti-violence activists held two separate mass prayers on Monday at the site of the Jakarta hotel bombings, which killed nine pe

Prodita Sabarini – Bogor's Chinatown has for years been famous for its modest restaurants serving tasty pork dishes.

Municipal officials in Pekanbaru, Riau, are requiring school children to wear traditional Muslim dress every Friday as part of an effort to bolster the region's Malay identity, an offic

Bachtiar Effendy, Jakarta – Again, for the second time this year, the moment of truth is finally here.

Farouk Arnaz – A Muslim cleric charged for breaking child protection laws by marrying a 12-year-old girl accused his former lawyer of fraud for failing to make good on promises to sprin

Febriamy Hutapea – "Everything just goes on as usual. Nothing's changed," Muhammad Riskonhasan, 22, said.

Jon Afrizal, Jambi – The Merangin regency branch of the Indonesian Ulema Council (MUI) has declared deviant the teachings of the Tarikat Naqsabandiyah Islamic group, widely embraced sin

Amir Tejo & Ismira Lutfia, Surabaya – In a rarely seen community backlash against Muslim radicals, residents in a Surabaya neighborhood took a somewhat vigilante tack, physically ba

Panca Nugraha, Mataram – West Nusa Tenggara (NTB) administration has reportedly dropped plans to buy assets of local Jamaah Ahmadiyah followers, forcing them to remain in refugee camps.

Yemris Fointuna, Kupang – Leaders of the Timor Evangelical Church (GMIT) expressed disappointment over the arrests of alleged defiant Sion City of Allah sect leaders as suspects of reli

Indonesia has threatened to ban Australian beef imports amid concerns some of the meat doesn't meet Islamic halal standards.

Muninggar Sri Saraswati – Hundreds of protesters from several hard-line Islamic groups rallied on Monday, and declared support for presidential candidates who would support Shariah law

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Irawaty Wardany, Makassar – The issue of headscarfs looks to drag-on in the lead-up to the presidential election on July 8, although many have learned that appearances can be deceitful.

Muninggar Sri Saraswati – Despite the waning popularity of Islam-based political parties, presidential candidates and their running mates have continued to stress their religious values

Ferry Iwanto – President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono called on his coalition partners over the weekend to steer clear of using symbols related to religion or race during the campaign.

Jakarta – The Democratic Party (PD) has criticized other parties contesting the upcoming presidential race for allegedly exploiting Islam for political gain.

Jakarta – Islamic symbols will be nondeterminant factors for Indonesians electing the president and vice president in July, just as in April, an observer says.

Indra Harsaputra, Magetan, East Java – Many have been shocked to learn that 1,700 Muslim clerics of Nahdlatul Ulama (NU) – the largest Muslim organization in Indonesia – have issued an

Nurfika Osman – This conclusion was drawn when Muslim clerics from Islamic boarding schools, or pesantren, from across Java and Madura islands convened on Thursday.

Jakarta – Recent moves by the Prosperous Justice Party (PKS) and the National Mandate Party (PAN) may have carved deeper scars into the already tarnished image of Indonesia's Islamic-ba

Erwida Maulia, Jakarta – Indonesian Muslim voters uncertain of parties' economic policies are more likely to vote for Islamic parties than Pancasila-based nationalist ones, a research s

Jakarta – Internal conflict among the elite of the country's largest Islamic organization, Nahdlatul Ulama (NU), has greatly reduced its authority and influence as the nation's politica

Depok – Following the Depok municipality's decision to annul the building permit (IMB) for a Protestant Batak Christian (HKBP) church in Cinere, the Setara Institute for Democracy and P

Ridwan Max Sijabat, Jakarta – The Prosperous Justice Party (PKS) denounced a report alleging its members and the Hizbut Tahrir Indonesia (HTI) group were undermining moderate Islam in t

Jakarta – After attending a Friday prayer at a Nahdlatul Ulama (NU) mosque near his house in Surabaya, a young man said the cleric had told the congregation to vote in the upcoming gene

Muninggar Sri Saraswati – This week's campaign sorties saw at least two Islamic parties try to boost their sagging popularity by calling for the government to outlaw Ahmadiyah, a contro

Joe Cochrane – Throwing a gauntlet down at the feet of radical Islam, a group of mainstream Muslim leaders led by former President Abdurrahman Wahid on Thursday announced the release of

Jakarta – Islamic extremists have infiltrated deep into Indonesia's government, businesses, schools and religious bodies, and are using cunning new tactics to seize control of mosques a

Stephen Fitzpatrick, Jakarta – Jakarta's secretive criminal gang structure, with links right up to national politics and next week's elections, has taken a serious blow with the sudden

Muninggar Sri Saraswati – The United Development Party, or PPP, has resorted to calling on the government to dissolve the controversial Islamic sect Ahmadiyah in an effort to appeal to

Alfian, Jakarta – As the legislative election is around the corner, the Islamic-based Prosperous Justice Party (PKS) is dealing with two biggest challenges; maintaining its clean image

Pagaralam, South Sumatra – A beauty contest for transvestites has become the Indonesian Ulema Council's (MUI) latest target.

Jakarta – Minister of Religious Affairs Maftuh Basyuni reprimanded religious leaders Friday for using religion to get or discourage votes for certain parties.

Desy Nurhayati, Jakarta – Islamic parties might not be able to secure a significant number of votes in this year's legislative elections as the parties have been abandoned by supporters

Meidyatama Suryodiningrat, Jakarta – Once considered a threat by some, political Islam is now under threat.

Alfian, Jakarta – Muslim-based parties may have seen a significant decline in their popularity, but they can still determine who will win the presidential election, observers say.

Jakarta – West Lombok regency has decided forbid members of the Ahmadiyah Islamic sect, who have been living in uncertainty at a refugee center in West Nusa Tenggara for three years, to

Andra Wisnu, Jakarta – Islam and yoga share more similarities than some parties would like to admit, a seminar concluded Thursday.

Nivell Rayda – One of the country's most senior Muslim leaders on Thursday threatened to issue an edict banning people from voting for the incumbent president in the upcoming election b

Panca Nugraha, Mataram – After living in uncertainty at a refugee center in West Nusa Tenggara for three years, 68 members of the Ahmadiyah Islamic sect have decided to risk returning h

Aubrey Belford, Jakarta – With its harrowing scenes of rape and abuse and its rousing calls for equality, a new film on the oppression of women in Islamic societies is courting controve

Muninggar Sri Saraswati – A man from the East Java town of Blitar says he will continue to sell "tickets to heaven" for Rp 4 million ($336), despite the Indonesia Council of Ulema, or M

Jakarta – The bill on halal product assurance, now being deliberated at the House of Representatives, discriminates against non-Muslims and has serious impacts for people who consume it

Ati Nurbaiti, Kuala Lumpur – Equality is necessary and possible in Muslim families, and not just so-called modern women demand such equality, women said Saturday at an international gat

Indonesia – Jaipong artists slammed president of the Islamic-based Prosperous Justice Party (PKS) Tifatul Sembiring for his statement, which they said discredited the traditional West J

Peter Gelling, Solo – At a small, back-street bookstore here, the young employees, wearing matching green skullcaps and sporting wispy chin beards, stock books with titles like "Waiting

Jakarta – A senior cleric has called on Muslims to boycott a new film about Islam's treatment of women, saying it "slanders" the religion.

Abdul Khalik, Jakarta – The controversial pornography law has been blasted for targeting cultural heritage, after West Java Governor Ahmad Heryawan used it as a legal basis to forbid Ja