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.