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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Andi Jatmiko and Niniek Karmini

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

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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 in the country's 2017 General Election Law, which sets no maximum age.

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