In Indonesia's election, the winner is Widodo - and Islam


  • World
  • Thursday, 18 Apr 2019

Incumbent Indonesian president Joko Widodo leaves after a press briefing in Jakarta, Indonesia, April 18, 2019 in this photo taken by Antara Foto. Antara Foto/Aditya Pradana Putra/ via REUTERS

JAKARTA (Reuters) - Two months before this week's presidential election in Indonesia, prize-winning novelist Eka Kurniawan declared in an opinion column that "the Islamists have already won".

Unofficial results from Wednesday's poll show that incumbent President Joko Widodo was actually the winner and is set for a second five-year term - but they also reveal a hardening bloc of conservative Muslims who voted for his challenger.

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