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Chi­nese de­mand for In­done­sian wood pulp is prop­ping up in­dus­try os­tracised else­where over sus­tain­abil­i­ty con­cerns.

The Bet­ter Cot­ton Ini­tia­tive faced scruti­ny over its work af­ter part­ner­ing with Chi­nese firm ac­cused of rights abus­es.

There are al­most nine mil­lion In­done­sians liv­ing abroad, a key con­stituen­cy for the con­tenders Wido­do and Subianto.

In­done­sia may be South­east Asia’s most suc­cess­ful democ­ra­cy, but com­mu­nist and re­gion­al par­ties are still banned.

In­done­sia’s Mus­lim par­ties fared bet­ter than ex­pect­ed in April’s par­lia­men­tary vote but are un­like­ly to win pow­er.

In­done­sia polls are a con­test be­tween two di­a­met­ri­cal­ly op­posed views of the coun­try’s trou­bled past.