Anis Baswedan a political analyst and president of Paramadina University in Jakarta, says most people understood the ongoing oil spill in the Gulf and other domestic concerns that forced Mr.Obama to twice cancel state visits to Indonesia.

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Politicians who thought these Islamic parties had deep support "were completely wrong, " says Anis Baswedan, president of Jakarta's Paramadina University, which specializes in Islamic studies.

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