BFM Podcast

Jakarta Governor Protest - Lessons for Malaysia

Tan KW
Publish date: Mon, 14 Nov 2016, 12:31 PM

Yohanes Sulaiman, Indonesian Defence University | Professor Dr Taufiq Yap, Malaysian Chinese Muslim Association | Professor Dr Shamrahayu Aziz, IKIM & IIUM

14-Nov-16 10:22

 

Earlier this month, Jakarta was the scene of a 100,000-strong protest against its governor, Basuki Tjahaja Purnama, for accusing his Muslim political opponents of using a verse in the Quran to urge people not to vote for him. Basuki, an ethnic Chinese Christian, leads a city where 85 percent of its inhabitants are Muslims.
 

We explore what Malaysia - with a similar demographic - can learn from these events.
 

This is a report by Keith Kam.

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