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Jakarta welcomes first ethnic Chinese governor

Published Wed, Nov 19, 2014 · 09:50 PM
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A CHRISTIAN was inaugurated on Wednesday as governor of the Indonesian capital for the first time in 50 years, despite weeks of protests from Islamic hardliners in the world's most populous Muslim-majority country.

Basuki Tjahaja Purnama, also the first person from the country's tiny ethnic Chinese minority to become leader of Jakarta, was sworn in at a ceremony by President Joko Widodo.

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