The King of Java inflames an Indonesian “democratic emergency”

At the same time, the president’s allies in the legislature were hastily writing up revisions to the country’s electoral laws ahead of regional elections in November. The amendments would have barred Anies Baswedan, the leading opposition politician, from running for governor of Jakarta, the capital. They would have also lowered the minimum age to run by a few months, a change which would benefit perhaps only one candidate, 29-year-old Kaesang Pangarep, the president’s second son.