Police detained 65 punk fans attending a charity concert in the Aceh province. The teenagers had their heads shaven, and were thrown into pools of water for “spiritual cleansing”.
The hip French lounge chain Buddha Bar is under pressure to close its only Asian branch, a club in the Indonesian capital Jakarta, amid protests by Buddhists
At a festival in New Zealand an audio-visual composition which focus on the indigenous people of Indonesia was withdrawn after presure from the Indonesian embassy