On Tuesday, May 8, 2018, Basuki Tjahaja Purnama, also known as Ahok, was sentenced to two years in prison for blasphemy against Islam. This sentence comes after a long trial that has kept Indonesia in the spotlight.
The charges against Basuki stem from a speech he gave during his re-election campaign in September 2016. In the speech, Basuki said that people who were voting for him because he was a Christian were being misled, as there was no one else …