AFTER a campaign rally this week, Indonesian presidential contender Anies Baswedan (pic) dabbed sweat off his forehead as his convoy inched through a throng of supporters. Suddenly, he jumped out of his van to sign one last autograph for an excited teenage girl.
Less than six weeks from the Feb 14 election to lead the world’s third-largest democracy, such spontaneity along with campaign pledges to address what he calls an erosion of democratic values have helped pull the former governor of Jakarta into second place in some opinion surveys.
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