Ahok's rise has some Chinese-Indonesians worried
His combative political style has led some to denounce him for disrupting Indonesia's delicate ethnic balance, while others plead with him to tone down his rhetoric
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Jakarta
IT WAS Chinese New Year, which at Ryan Gozali's household usually involves eating an elaborate banquet while younger relatives are nagged about when they're getting married.
But Mr Gozali, 33 and unmarried, was off the hook this year. The family instead spent New Year's glued to the television, watching Basuki Purnama, Jakarta's ethnically Chinese governor, debating his opponents before the election on Wednesday.
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