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.
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