Benteng Reges

Representatives of the country’s most influential Muslim organizations participated in Christmas celebrations held by Christians and supplied 1,500 volunteers to patrol places of worship.

More than 97 billion rupiahs disappear in the pockets of government officials, Christians on Nias Island complain that housing and infrastructures have not been rebuilt. Today a sombre ceremony will mark the 167,000 people who died in the tragedy.

The civil authorities are not sure about the death toll as yet. The hardest hit area is Langkat regency where people have evacuated their homes and streets are impassable. Illegal deforestation has been blamed.

Subur Sugiyarto provided the most dangerous terrorist in South-East Asia with a hiding place for two months. Judges also found him guilty "of exploiting Islamic teachings for a political agenda".

The families of the victims met the three terrorists accused of the murders and accepted their apologies. The Indonesian authorities described it as a historic moment, saying they hoped it would serve to bring peace to Poso.

Two men involved in the triple murder in Poso (Central Sulawesi) in 2005 go on trial. Both risk the death penalty. In a separate trial, the other defendant admits his guilt and names the man behind the killing, a former Muslim rebel from a Mindanao.

The man nearly fainted before trying to blow himself up in the heart of an American restaurant in the eastern part of the capital. At the moment he is in a military hospital and is in critical condition.

Poso Muslim religious leader is being investigated for allegedly hiding 29 fugitives and for turning people against the police.

Hasanuddin, the first man to go on trial, masterminded the gruesome crime and now faces the death penalty. In addition to three schoolgirls, he ordered his men to behead at least a hundred Christians in Poso as an act of revenge for Muslims killed in the 1999-2001 sectarian violence.

In a rare move, police releases the names of those responsible for a spate of violence between 2001 and 2006, including the mastermind of last year's triple murder of three female Christian students in Poso.

Jusuf Kalla said new anti-terrorism laws were needed to restore peace to the area. The response of civil society: first the government should discover those truly responsible for sectarian clashes that took place between 1999 and 2001.

A Muslim village reacted angrily to police searches on the eve of Idul Fitri. People were instigated by "false" alarms via SMS that accused police of attacking a Muslim school.