Following Editorial has been written in response to the following news: Accused witch tortured, burned alive in Papua, New Guinea Time for leaders to condemn sorcery killings Papua New Guineans […]
The Jakarta Post: Nathanael Gratias Sumaktoyo It would be a rough comparison and some people might object to it, but it is interesting to match the gun control debate in […]
The Obama from Java The Guardian: Like a lot of people in the autumn of 2012, I watched the TV debates between Barack Obama and Mitt Romney. It was the […]
The Jakarta Post The Ahmadiyah Indonesia Congregation (JAI) is calling on the government to restore the rights of its members, who have been living in a shelter for the past […]
The Heads of State and Government will meet on the 6th & 7th of February 2013 to discuss political matters of importance to the Muslim World, on top of […]
Rabwah Times: Five members of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community who are witnesses in the “Ahmadiyya Mosque Vandalism” case have asked the Indonesian Legal Aid Foundation (LBH) in Bandung for protection. […]
Indonesia: Confront Intolerance in 2013 Phelim Kine, deputy Asia director Indonesia’s growing regional prominence is being held back by the government’s failure to confront intolerance of the country’s diverse political […]
Hijab for a day: Non-Muslim women who try the headscarf Source: BBC World Hijab Day calls on non-Muslim women to try out life under the traditional head scarf. Can it […]
Religious affairs office tells schools to close for refusing to provide Islamic teaching to their Muslim children Blitar, NU Online: The Religious Affairs Ministry’s office in Blitar, East Java, has […]
1. News from Al Arabiya 2. News from Philippines 3. The voice of Russia In Russia, large-scale Mawlid an-Nabi festivities will be held in Grozny, the capital of Chechnya. […]
Economist: The road to renewal THE sleep has been long and deep. In 2005 Harvard University produced more scientific papers than 17 Arabic-speaking countries combined. The world’s 1.6 billion Muslims […]
Indonesian Ulema in favour of female circumcision: a “human right” The practice is “recommended” and according to “tradition”, although it can not be made compulsory. For the head of the […]
The Jakarta Post: The Bandung High Court has added one more year to the prison term of Sebastian Joe, who was sentenced to four years’ imprisonment for the blasphemy of […]
(THE JAKARTA POST) — Six Catholic schools in Blitar municipality, East Java, have finally given in to a local ordinance and will provide Islamic lessons for their Muslim students. The […]
The Jakarta Globe: Five members of the Ahmadiyah community on Tuesday said they would report a judge of the Bandung District Court to the Judicial Commission for refusing to allow […]
By Akhyari Hananto Indonesia has been named the sixth best Muslim-friendly holiday destination in the world, in a new survey released on Wednesday that listed Malaysia in the top position. […]
Thirty six followers of Ahmadiyah “converted” to Sunni Islam during a ceremony conducted at Agung grand mosque in Tasikmalaya, West Java, on Thursday. “We really appreciate the move from those […]
Moscow, NU Online Russia’s Federal Migration Service (FMS) will now allow applicants for employment permits to be photographed with their head covered, if required by their religious beliefs, the Dozhd […]
Source: The Jakarta Post Prosecutors at the Bandung District Court on Thursday sought a five-and-a-half years jail sentence for Islam Defenders Front (FPI) member, Asep “Utep” Abdurahman, for allegedly damaging […]