ANIES Rasyid Baswedan was supposed to fly to New York and speak at the Global Education Conference in September. But the former education and culture minister had to cancel his trip after he caught a virus, forcing him to check in at a hospital instead.

During his treatment, Anies received visits from senior political party officials who sought contenders to run against incumbent Basuki Tjahaja Purnama (Ahok) in the next Jakarta gubernatorial el