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It’s almost 2 months since Jakarta’s newest club – the Global Ikhlwan polygamy club was set up. Let’s revisit this polygamy club and see how they are doing. First, the club is said to have its origin in Malaysia, and it has 1,000 members worldwide – including in places like Australia and the US. Since the Jakarta [...] This story is not new, but since I am on a series about teenage Indonesian model Manohara Odelia Pinot who ran away from her Kelantan prince husband, Tengku Muhammad Fakhry Sultan Ismail Petra, I might as well blog on it. It seems that Daisy Fajarina, the mother of Manohara Odelia Pinot, had a brush with the [...] From January 2010, if you are a Muslim woman and you wear trousers (pants), you may want to be extra careful if you happen to be in West Aceh, Indonesia. District head Ramli Mansur has signed a bylaw that prohibits Muslim women in West Aceh from wearing certain kind of trousers. He said recently: “We have [...] A couple in Somalia chose the wrong place to commit the act of adultery. They did it in territory under the control of the al-Shabaab group, and worse, they left evidence of their act – the woman became pregnant. Now they are paying for it with their lives. Just recently, 33-year old Abas Hussein Abdirahman was stoned [...] 2 separate headlines in the Jakarta Post just caught my attention. The headlines reads: “Syech Puji acquitted from child sexual abuse charge” and “Cleric files report over extortion”. Who is Syech Puji? Well he is Pujiono Cahyo Widianto aka Syech Puji. 43 year old Syech Puji is the head of an Islamic boarding school (Ponpes Miftahul Jannah) in [...] This has been a week of disasters. In the last 48 hours we saw 2 powerful undersea earthquakes erupting, one of which was accompanied by a tsunami. Earlier we also saw a powerful typhoon striking five countries. First off, a powerful 7.6 magnitude undersea earthquake struck Indonesia, with Padang in Sumatra most badly affected. Initial reports say more than [...] Indonesia is again in the news. This time it involves Aceh, best known as the worst hit area during the 2004 tsunami that hit Indonesia. In a couple more weeks, the Aceh Party (made up of former separatist fighters from the Free Aceh Movement) will take power in the new provincial assembly. But this new provincial assembly is [...] The September 2 earthquake in Java, Indonesia caused panic among people living or working in high rise buildings, and deaths to those whose houses were buried under massive mudslides. Indonesia, lying within the Pacific “Ring of Fire” zone, is always experiencing earthquakes. But the capital city of Jakarta has not been hit by any big earthquake. There [...] Sitting in a earthquake prone area is no joke. Indonesia should know. It sits in an area know as the Pacific “Ring of Fire”. An undersea earthquake on Boxing Day in 2004 generated huge tsunami waves that took the lives of nearly a quarter of a million people across 11 countries. The undersea tremblor on September 2 [...] I heard about the earthquake in Java (Indonesia) on the radio. Then I received a SMS text message from a colleague who is there with a group of friends. The text message reads: “We are all OK. We felt it and it went on for sometime – rolling followed by a sudden jerk. There was some panic.” Fatimah, a [...] |
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