Aside from Budha and Hindu, Indonesia guarantees freedom of religion and recognizes other religions as mentioned in the graphic below :
*lainnya = others
Sunni Islam is the majority religion throughout most of the country. Notable exceptions include the province of Bali, which is predominantly Hindu, and the provinces of Papua, West Papua, East Nusa Tenggara, West Nusa Tenggara, West Timor, West Kalimantan, North Kalimantan, North Sulawesi and North Sumatra which are predominantly Christian.
About 86 percent of all Indonesians are Muslims; 7 percent are Christians (4.1 percent Protestant and 2.9 percent Roman Catholic); 3.3 percent are Hindu; 1.2 percent are Buddhists, Confucian and other; and 0.4 percent are unspecified.
This is how extreme Islam is in Indonesia:
According to this source, Indonesia as a nation that is far less developed than Turkey/Lebanon, actually have large number of people who are against Sharia or any sort of extremism. Imagine this in another 20 years, it will almost certainly became even more liberal. It is safe to say that vast majority of the middle-upper class are fairly open-minded, albeit occasional racism (which tend to be a joke).
I lived in Indonesia for quite some time and there was hardly any extremism of any kind I observed anywhere. For the most part, most forms of Islam and the great majority of Muslims are not even remotely extreme. Many of them regard extremism as an embarrassment to their faith, their nation, and them personally. Indonesia is a secular plural democracy which has already had a woman president. One can easily find alcohol, pork, and p0rn there, along with many Christians, Buddhists, Hindus, animists, and even a small Jewish community.
Intermarriage, dating, and friendships across religious lines are extremely common. I never experienced any prejudice or hostility towards me as a Catholic. Just the opposite, there was quite a bit of friendliness and curiosity. Muslim women sometimes approached me for dating. A group of Muslims even invited me to break fast for Ramadan, and offered me snacks while they fasted.
Regarding to Ahok's case, it is not just a normal blasphemy case there's too much politics in this case. Ahok's sentence is politically driven by corrupted elites.
Ahok also would probably be free next week on bail anyway until the High Court trial proceedings so the 2 year verdict of the National Court does not quite matter.
Actually though it matters quite little as it could be easily overturned on the High Court or at the Supreme Court, or even the Supreme Court retrial if the fight goes on till then. Although it did successfully rally the pro-Ahok supporters and moderate muslims organizations to finally stand up and gave the government the support to do a “counterattack” (so to speak) with the banning of HTI (one of the biggest group on the anti-Ahok demonstration with apparently over 100,000 members).
External support notably from the APHR,EU and UN has also poured so there’s still a big ray of hope that this is not the end.
