BASUKI Tjahaja Purnama, known simply as Ahok, has gone down in history as Jakarta’s first governor to be sent to prison on the charge of blasphemy. The vague law was adopted from a segregative policy made by the Dutch colonial government. According to the judge, Ahok’s statement in September 2016, calling on the public to pay no heed to those encouraging them not to vote for a non-Muslim leader, counted as blasphemy against religion. Ahok was