President Joko “Jokowi” Widodo has continued to strengthen his electoral position in Java, while Gerindra, the party of Jokowi’s main rival Prabowo Subianto, has also gained ground, boosting its chances of becoming the country’s second-largest party behind Jokowi’s Indonesian Democratic Party of Struggle (PDI-P), a new poll reveals. Meanwhile, pollster Charta Politika suggests that the former Indonesian Armed Forces (TNI) Commander General Gatot Nurmantyo has a great chance of advancing himself for the vice presidency. Gerindra appears to have supported an idea floated by Islam Defenders Front (FPI) leader Rizieq Shihab that it form an “ummah alliance” to challenge Widodo in the 2019 presidential election, according to The Jakarta Post.