for years after indepdence om the dutch in 1945, and th under decades of suharto's dictatorship, region was officially lerated at best. >> islam and theraditional, customaryaws were regarded as being backwa and primarily blamed for, you know,he defeat for many muslim cotries under eopean rule, so that many of the earlienationalist leaders, ny of the educated elite, i fact, turd their back on religion, andmong the younger generation there seems toe a greater wiingness both to be enly religious and to be modernnd educated at same times. i think maybehis is not just a search for grear spiritual anchor, but also i think 's greater self-confiden >> reporter:he and others say ths growth of religious pression is spawned bthe new democratic freedoms. it's neither fundamentalt nor milita, notwithstandinrecent terrorist indents. bbings in two jakarta hotels killed ne people last july, and a 2002 attacin the urist haven of bali killed more than 200. but religion scholar ul abdalla, with the liberal ismic youth association, says sucextremism is not widespread. >> for some people, islam a practicein