THE decision of the police to indict Basuki Tjahaja Purnama (Ahok) for blasphemy shows that the law in Indonesia has bowed to mob pressure. We are seeing our legal system being destabilized and our democracy come under threat. We cannot convincingly accept the decision that indicting Ahok is entirely based on legal considerations.

Ahok is suspected of insulting the Qur'an. His speech, at the Thousand Islands on September, during which he quoted fro