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Islam takes on a lighter shade of green in 2024 Indonesian polls

A key reason is the youth vote and shifting attitudes on identity politics.

With the youth wielding the kill switch on identity politics, conservative Islam-based political parties in Indonesia have been forced to shift towards the centre, says a political analyst.

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Arlina Arshad

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JAKARTA – Islam has been at the front and centre of Indonesia elections in the past decade.

When President Joko Widodo

first ran for office in 2014,

rumours swirled that he was not a devout Muslim. When he ran again in 2019, he had to counter claims that he would ban the Muslim call to prayer, known as adzan, scrap religious education, and legalise same-sex marriages.

Islam takes on a lighter shade of green in 2024 Indonesian polls

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