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.
Anis Hidayah, executive director of the migrant worker advocacy agency Migrant Care, told CNN that she was pleased with the government's decision to stop sending workers to Saudi Arabia but expressed a need for serious action beyond the creation of task forces given the responsibility of monitoring migrant worker protection overseas.