Mathias Hariyadi

The leader of the Nahdlatul Ulama (NU), the largest moderate Muslim organization in the country, condemns the violence and attacks on embassies in other countries. Muslims have a right to protest, but must do so through other channels. Jakarta tightens security around the embassies and closes down Youtube.

Meeting decides to expel the Protestant community, despite regular permits and Constitutional Court judgment. YC leaders excluded from meeting and accuse Minister for Interior. A complaint to the police, supported by the Indonesian Churches and human rights activists.

Two failed attacks in the capital raise the alarm level. Government buildings and police stations are the new targets of Islamists' 'holy war'. In Russia, President Yudhoyono calls for the area to be "sterilised". Three die in a gunfight between police and young extremists.

Followers of the Bali bombing mastermind killed three policemen in Solo in the past few weeks. They also placed a car bomb at an Islamic festival. Leaders from the moderate Muslim organisation Nahdlatul Ulama accuse Islamic boarding schools of brainwashing youth to turn them into terrorists, killers and harbingers of a false Islam.

The members of the Shiite minority have been holed up in the sports field since August 27, after clashes with the Sunni majority. For local government their humanitarian conditions are unacceptable, but no official is doing anything to help them. The Islamic Network of Anti-Discrimination and other humanitarian organizations denounce the climate of hatred against the Shia.

Anti-discrimination Islamic group president confirms that scores of people have disappeared, and that hundreds more are in need of food and basic necessities. Calling for trauma care experts to treat victims, he slams government inaction, but latter blames the violence on a "family feud."

Interfaith tension still high on Madura island. Eight injured and dozens of homes destroyed in yesterday’s clashes. A family feud and rivalry between groups are likely to lead to open conflict. Activists, intellectuals and civil society against President Yudhoyono and the central executive.

Voters in the capital will cast their ballot on 20 September for their new governor. Muslim groups have launched personal racist anti-Christian attacks. Imams and other religious leaders have called on residents to vote only for Muslims. Fears are growing about the campaign’s impact on Indonesia’s fragile social fabric.

The province leads Indonesia in sectarian violence. The murder of the leader of an extremist movement provokes his followers who carry out a revenge attack against the members of a sect deemed heretical. However, the latter was in no way connected with murder. The incident highlights the fact that violence remains a problem within Islam.

Death toll from 6.3 magnitude earthquake that struck the central part of Indonesia at the weekend continues to climb. Some villages are isolated by landslides and flooding, bridge and roads destroyed. The epicenter of the quake in the districts of Paris, Moutong and Sigi. Army soldiers lead emergency rescue of civilian population.

This year's Idul Fitri was tarnished by bloodshed and violence. In Solo, a grenade was thrown at a police station; no victims were reported. In Bandung, police tells priest to stop Mass as many fear attacks by Muslim extremists.

Millions of people leave the main cities for their places of origin to celebrate the event with family. Traffic jams block roads whilst transit prices rise. Hundreds are involved in road accidents. In the capital, streets are deserted as businesses close.