Many Indonesians expect next year’s presidential election to see a rematch between President Joko “Jokowi” Widodo and his former rival Prabowo Subianto. But speculation has intensified lately that Jakarta Governor Anies Baswedan will join the race, Wahyudi Soeriaatmadja reports for the Straits Times. According to the CEO of Saiful Mujani Research Center (SMRC) Djayadi Hanan, Anies Baswedan is one of the potential candidates against Jokowi in the 2019 presidential election. Anies is said to have bigger chances so long the opposition coalition of Jokowi remains solid. Should the opposition support more than one candidate, it will be difficult to win over Jokowi’s party, Djayadi said as quoted by Tempo.co. Baswedan is a respected public intellectual who has long espoused tolerance and a moderate vision of Islam. His embrace of a fringe group that promotes intolerance and perpetrates violence against religious minorities is troubling, writes Gordon La Forge for the Medium.