JAKARTA: Indonesia’s president has urged his country to embrace its founding spirit of tolerance in an annual national address just days after choosing a divisive cleric as his running mate in elections next year.
Joko “Jokowi” Widodo told parliament yesterday that independence fighters were able to throw off Dutch colonial rule by not being divided by political, ethnic, religious or class differences.
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