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Ethnic Chinese Christian governor breaks Indonesian barriers

Published Sun, Nov 23, 2014 · 09:50 PM

Jakarta

JAKARTA, the sprawling Indonesian megacity of 10 million people, has a new governor with a difference.

It's not just Basuki Tjahaja Purnama's hard-charging style that sets him apart from his predecessors. It's also the fact that he is Christian and ethnic Chinese, and is improbably running the capital of the world's most populous Muslim-majority nation.

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