one of the main organizers was baktia nasir, a saudi-educated activist with instagral followers who representservative islam in asia. he and his allies support a puritanical variety of islam which has spread through with the help of saudi money. through schools and the media, the goal is to reform indonesian society for generations to come. in april 2017, ahok lost the elections. in may he was convicted of blasphemy and handed a two-year prison sentence. as scott notes, no matter what happens in the upcoming election, the protests transform politics. last year, joko picked as his running mate a conservative clerk who had played a critical role in the protests against ahok, the former governor. but the protests also changed the public. before the agitation, 42% of indonesian muslims believed only muslims should hold political office. that's bad enough. last year, well after the protest died down, it was more than 54%, cording to the forthcoming research scott cites. what this shows is religion is emerging as a new fault line of identity politics in indonesia, says peter rumford of the interraci