Indonesia's election focuses on: Who will be more Islamic?
JAKARTA, Indonesia - When the Christian governor of Jakarta was tried in 2017 on dubious charges of insulting Islam, an influential conservative Muslim cleric spoke out against him. With help from that testimony, the politician was convicted of blasphemy and sentenced to two years in prison.
The ruling signaled the widening clout of religious hardliners in Indonesia, the world's most populous Muslim nation. And it left a mark on moderate first-term President Joko Widodo, better known as Jokowi, an ally of the convicted governor who also faced allegations he wasn't "Muslim enough."
Two years later, Jokowi is running for reelection - with
