All eyes on the race for the post of Jakarta governor

Jakarta

WHEN Ibu Cendana learned that, owing to a minor slip up, she would need to brave Jakarta traffic and take a ride with one of her daughters into the capital to vote, she had one answer: "Of course!"

Making the decision easier for the 86-year-old, who has called Jakarta home all her life, was the fact that for the first time, a fellow ethnic Chinese, Basuki Purnama, was on the ballot for governor of the country's capital.