Indonesia Islamism

In Indonesia and elsewhere, anger at Israel's brutal attacks on Gaza has provided grist for the extremist mill.

Late last month, 16 senior JI figures announced the group's dissolution, and said they were “ready to actively contribute to Indonesia's progress and dignity.”

Panji Gumilang, 77, heads a school where women are allowed to preach and pray alongside men.

The revised code passed by parliament last week is likely to radically reorient the relationship between rulers and ruled.

The code will outlaw sex and cohabitation before marriage, and ban insults against the president and state institutions.

Despite its official motto of "unity in diversity," the country is becoming increasingly inhospitable for members of religious minorities.

Pressures on women to follow Islamic dress codes are increasing. That paves the way for further restrictions on girls and women, experts say.

The former JI leader recently pledged his loyalty to the Indonesian state, but there are reasons to question the sincerity of his conversion.

The city-state's recent deportation of Abdul Somad Batubara, a radical Indonesian Muslim preacher, demonstrates its intolerance for any kind of extremism.

Indonesian government attempts to regulate the azan, or Islamic call to prayer, continue to inflame religious sentiments.

Munarman, a former human rights lawyer, was the general secretary of the now-banned Islamic Defenders Front.

The protests against the museum in Sulawesi are a sign of the disturbing persistence of anti-Semitism in the world's largest Muslim-majority nation.

Over the past six months, the Indonesian government has intensified its crackdown on hardline Islamic groups.

Police described the 25-year-old woman as "a lone wolf with the radical ideology of the Islamic State."

Could the cleric's release from prison reinvigorate Indonesia's fragmented jihadi movement?

A focus on episodic developments detracts from the wider trends at play in the world’s most populous Muslim-majority country.

Rizieq Shihab was welcomed by tens of thousands of followers when he returned to Indonesia from exile on November 10. 

The firebrand's return comes at a time of Islamist political ascendancy in Indonesia.

The recent anti-Muslim riots in New Delhi have elicited a strong rebuke from Muslim-majority countries in Southeast Asia.

Indonesia’s summoning of the Indian ambassador over the Delhi riots points to a deeper trend.

In two separate incidents, militants were arrested in Papua province and attackers killed an officer in Central Sulawesi.

In Aceh, young people have to reconcile their daily life with a strict version of Islamic law.

Jokowi needs to make tackling intolerance a focal point of his second term.

Abu Bakar Bashir, the spiritual leader of Jemaah Islamiyah, is due to be released next week.