A word of warning from the archipelago:
A fierce debate over sweeping anti-pornography and morality laws that are backed by Islamic parties in the parliament have infuriated the vast majority of moderate Indonesian Muslims…. “People are angry, they are up to the neck, but they are afraid of them because they are militant and they are numbering hundreds, sometimes thousands,” Harymurti said of the morality campaigners. “But because they’ve created such bad will for a few years, when suddenly the tables turn, people are more than ready to basically slaughter.” …Other provinces like Aceh have moved to implement sharia laws, often without the wide support of ordinary people. But the proposed morality crackdown is drawing fire from Muslim moderates, as well as most largely Hindu Balinese and Christian Papuans, who have accused Islamic hardliners of attempting to impose sharia law by stealth with the new bills.
