The region’s fast-growing but fragile democracies have been susceptible to strongmen and autocratic-leaning populists in recent years, propelled by concerns over inequality, crime, and dysfunctional …

The election results show a hardening of voting patterns along religious, ethnic, and geographic lines, a troubling development for a multiracial and religiously diverse Indonesia.

Indonesia’s high-stakes vote for president is likely to result in more political stagnation for the world’s third-largest democracy.

With another five-year term, President Joko Widodo will possibly revive economic reform efforts and could take a more skeptical view toward China.