In Indonesia's election, the winner is Widodo - and Islam by KanupriyaKapoor f_potkin pilpres2019
JAKARTA - 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”.
Widodo’s commitment to pluralism in the world’s largest Muslim-majority country may have narrowly won him the race. But the Indonesia he must govern is now more polarized by religion, and he may struggle to meet the demands of Muslim groups that backed him and fend off more hardline Islamists who did not.
While nearly 90 percent of Indonesians are Muslim, the country is officially secular and is home to sizeable Hindu, Christian, Buddhist and other minorities. These provinces are seen as among the most conservative because they have introduced sharia-based by-laws and their demographic make-up is more than 97 percent Muslim. Prabowo won in at least 13 out of 34 provinces in Wednesday’s election.“This election has produced a more divided political map,” said Eve Warburton, a research fellow at Australian National University. “When Widodo and Prabowo are no longer on the front line, divisions may mellow but they will not disappear.
Nonetheless, Amin helped in the eyes of some voters to remove any doubt about Widodo’s commitment to Islam and neutralize the overall threat to Indonesia’s official secularity from groups gunning for an Islamic state. “The president can embrace with all kinds of social and economic efforts, but at the same time he will be forceful to reject their agenda to change the ‘Pancasila’ in any way,” the aide said, referring to the country’s secular ideology.Hardline groups that were once on the fringes of Indonesian politics, most notably the Islamic Defenders Front , have increasingly muscled their way into the mainstream and arguably provide a political voice for conservative Indonesian Muslims.
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