Despite an ominous round of regional elections on June 27 that seemed to signal trouble for President Joko Widodo in national elections, Jokowi, as the president is known, continues to enjoy the highest level of electability of any of the prospective candidates for the next round, the Asia Sentinel reports. Politicians have been using Muslim identity politics to stoke ethnic and religious sentiment in a country where 87.2 percent of the country’s 266 million citizens are at least nominally Muslim and where few dare criticize religious ideas. President Joko Widodo may be Muslim, but that doesn’t necessarily mean next year’s election won’t be affected by attacks from Islamic hardliners, writes Coconuts Jakarta.