Indonesia’s Democracy Is Becoming More Conservative
Incumbent President Joko Widodo won reelection with a Muslim-cleric running mate and five years of economic growth on his side.
JAKARTA—The results are still coming in after Indonesia’s mammoth general election, and it appears that President Joko “Jokowi” Widodo has won another term in office. His challenger, the former general Prabowo Subianto, might yet challenge the results, and Jokowi has held off on declaring victory.
Regardless of the winner, though, Indonesian politics as a whole has taken a more conservative direction.
The world’s fourth most populous country is a pluralist, multiparty democracy that officially extends civic and religious freedoms to everyone living across a staggeringly diverse archipelago. But by the
