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Daniel Peterson

Associate, Centre for Indonesian Law, Islam and Society (CILIS) at the University of Melbourne.

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The Ahok Show Trial and Indonesia’s Politicisation of Religion

Lawyer Daniel Peterson examines the legacy of the Ahok trial for Indonesian democracy and raises fundamental questions over how Indonesia's secular political elites deal with political Islam in the world's biggest Islamic country.

07 Apr 2020

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