Indonesia top court rejects presidential age limit, clearing legal path for 72-year-old frontrunner

JAKARTA, Indonesia — Indonesia’s top court rejected an effort to block presidential candidates who are over 70 or implicated in human rights abuses, clearing the legal path for a septuagenarian former general’s ultra-nationalist campaign. Lawyers belonging to a human rights advocacy group and other petitioners argued that the constitution required stricter limits than those written … Read more