Despite a rightward shift among Indonesia's 190 million voters, Islamic parties failed to make much headway as fiery religious rhetoric turned off moderate voters and the country's big nationalist parties did a better job vying for the support of the faithful.

Local governments may be introducing syariah-like rules and the capital may still be reeling from the fallout of the jailing of the former governor Basuki Tjahaja Purnama for blasphemy.