What’s next for Ahok?

Back to life: Ahok attending a thanksgiving service in Jakarta with family and friends after being released from prison. Ahok’s rumoured girlfriend Puput (right). — Antara Foto/Reuters

AFTER spending close to two years in jail for blasphemy, Jakarta’s former governor Basuki Tjahaja Purnama walked free on Thursday into a new job – and possibly a second marriage.

According to reports, the ethnic Chinese Christian, 52, plans to become a consultant to local governments, helping them to navigate the country’s electronic budgeting system, and wed his girlfriend, a 21-year-old Muslim policewoman named Puput Nastiti Devi.