JAKARTA: A Christian was inaugurated as governor of the Indonesian capital for the first time in 50 years, despite weeks of protests from Islamic hardliners in the world’s most populous Muslim-majority country.
Basuki Tjahaja Purnama, also the first person from the country’s tiny ethnic Chinese minority to become leader of Jakarta, was sworn in at a ceremony by President Joko Widodo yesterday.
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