Indonesian President Joko Widodo will double cash handouts to the poor next year ahead of general elections in April, Bloomberg reports. The conditional aid, aimed at 10 million families, will cost at least 38 trillion rupiah (S$3.55 billion) in 2019 from about 19 trillion rupiah this year. President Joko “Jokowi” Widodo, the nation’s first leader from outside the political and military elite, is once again facing Prabowo Subianto, a former lieutenant general and establishment figure who chairs the Gerindra Party. Sectarianism is looming large over the 2019 general elections, according to The Jakarta Post, with the Islamist groups behind the downfall of former Jakarta governor Basuki “Ahok” Tjahaja Purnama calling on Muslims to vote against Jokowi.