Ahok’s prison term is over

Jakarta: Jakarta’s former governor was released from prison, nearly two years after his blasphemy conviction fanned fears of religious intolerance in the world’s biggest Muslim-majority nation.

Basuki Tjahaja Purnama – the Indonesian capital’s first non-Muslim governor in half a century and its first ethnic Chinese leader – left a prison outside the capital after dawn, his assistant Ima Mahdiah said.