JAKARTA (Reuters) - A small but vocal militant Islamic group is putting Indonesia's president, leader of the world's most populous Muslim country, to the test over religious freedom, potentially hurting his re-election chances in 2009.
Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono, a reform-minded former general and Indonesia's first directly elected president, still tops opinion polls and is the favourite to win the 2009 presidential election.
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