Indonesia Islamism

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.