Racially charged viral video calls for support for Prabowo in Indonesia polls

Former military general Prabowo Subianto greeting his supporters in Sidoarjo, East Java, on March 31, 2019.
PHOTO: AFP
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JAKARTA - A video of a firebrand Muslim cleric giving a racially charged political sermon last week, purportedly in the West Kalimantan provincial town of Singkawang, is going viral on social media.

The town's population is predominantly ethnic Chinese.

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