Ex-wife of former Jakarta governor Ahok hid affair, court told

Veronica Tan breaking down as she reads a handwritten letter from her husband, former Jakarta Governor Basuki Tjahaja Purnama, during a press conference in Jakarta on May 23, 2017.PHOTO: AFP

JAKARTA: Veronica Tan was 19 when Basuki Tjahaja Purnama, better known as Ahok, proposed to her.

She had just enrolled in the architecture faculty at Pelita Harapan University in Tangerang, a satellite town of Jakarta.