| | ASAP Indonesia News Digest #17 - April 23-30, 2005 |
 | | Indra Harsaputra, Madura -- Eyes glistening with tears, Lina (not her real name) slowly, painfully recalled for her visitor the horrors she had suffered in Batam, where the 13-year-old Madura native had been offered a job as a shopkeeper but instead was forced to work as a prostitute. |
 | | Soft rock band Dewa is now the object of rage from the FPI and several Muslim groups, which reported the band to the city police for contempt of religion on Tuesday, over the use of the word Allah written in Arabic on the cover of its Laskar Cinta (Soldier of Love) album. |
 | | The groups were also outraged when the band members put their feet (a cultural/religious sign of great disrespect) on the design during a gig, as it was emblazoned on the stage. |
| www.asia-pacific-action.org /southeastasia/indonesia/netnews/2005/ind_17v9.htm (18855 words) |