Dark day for Indonesia’s democracy?


THE decision by Indonesia’s Constitutional Court last Monday in rejecting lawsuits filed by presidential candidates Anies Baswedan and Ganjar Pranowo wasn’t a surprise.

But the fact that three of the eight justices presiding over the case presented dissenting views was unprecedented in the history of the highest court in the land.

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