16-04-2017 11:42 via yahoo.com

Jakarta election exposes deep political, religious divide

By Tom Allard and Gayatri SuroyoJAKARTA (Reuters) - Jakarta voters head to the polls on Wednesday to elect a governor for Indonesia's teeming capital after a campaign that incited political and religious tensions in the world's most-populous Muslim country.Surveys have shown the race tightening to a statistical dead heat, with incumbent Governor Basuki Tjahaja Purnama, an ethnic Chinese Christian, closing in on rival Anies Baswedan, a former education minister.Purnama is standing trial on blasph
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