一 | JAKARTA, Indonesia -- Thousands of noisy, flag-waving political supporters created a celebratory atmosphere outside Indonesia’s election commission Thursday as candidates started registering for next year’s elections in the world’s third-largest democracy.More than 2,400 police were deployed around the General Election Commission compound in Jakarta and roads were blocked around the building, where traffic was snarled as the presidential and vice presidential candidates arrived.Anies Baswedan, an opposition candidate and former Jakarta governor, was the first to register for the presidential race, alongside his running mate, Muhaimin Iskandar, chairman of the National Awakening Party or PKB.Ganjar Pranowo, the governing party’s candidate for president and former Central Java governor, registered with his running mate, Muhammad Mahfud, the current top security minister. The election to succeed President Joko Widodo, who is serving his second and final term, is shaping up as a three-way race.Defense Minister Prabowo Subianto, who lost to Widodo in the last two presidential elections, is expected to run but it's not clear when he will register as he hasn't announced his running mate.The deadline for candidates to register for the legislative and presidential elections on Feb. 14, 2024, is next Wednesday.Opinion polls forecast a close race between Subianto and Pranowo, while Baswedan is consistently in third place.Baswedan was education and culture minister before Widodo removed him from the Cabinet in 2016.He was known as a progressive Muslim intellectual but religious identity politics in the 2017 election for Jakarta governor were seen as distancing him from moderate Muslims. His choice of Iskandar is viewed as an attempt to rebuild that support.Iskandar's PKB party has strong ties with Indonesia’s largest Islamic organization, Nahdlatul Ulama, which boasts over 45 million members.“We bring the idea of change to be felt by families in Indonesia. We want basic needs to be affordable. Farmers will have a more prosperous life, fishermen will have a more prosperous life. We want there to be equality of opportunity," Baswedan said at a news conference at the General Election Commission on Thursday. "The basic idea is that change brings equality and justice.”Some of Baswedan's supporters who gathered at the election commission building were from groups that held mass protests in 2016 against Jakarta’s ethnic Chinese Christian governor, Basuki Tjahaja Purnama, who was imprisoned on blasphemy charges after quoting the Quran in a speech. Baswedan galvanized street protests by hundreds of thousands and capitalized on the controversy in his successful run for governor.Baswedan is not expected to use religious identity politics in next year's election, said Arya Fernandes, head of the Department of Politics and Social Change at the Center for Strategic and International Studies Indonesia.“At the national level the people’s rejection of the use of identity or the use of religious-based narratives in elections and politics is actually high. So if there is any thought for any candidate to do that, I think it will backfire,” Fernandes said Thursday.Pranowo was a national legislator for the governing Indonesian Democratic Party of Struggle, or PDIP, for 10 years before being elected in 2013 for the first of his two terms as Central Java governor.Widodo praised Pranowo as a leader who is close to the people and “always goes down to the grassroots and is very ideological.” “We want to develop Indonesia faster and continue the good things that have been done by the current government, to fix what is not good enough and to leave the bad ones,” Pranowo said in a news conference.Pranowo has faced criticism and a backlash from soccer fans after FIFA earlier this year stripped Indonesia of its right to host the Under-20 World Cup.He was among those who had voiced opposition to Israel’s participation in the tournament. Indonesia is the world's most populous Muslim-majority nation and does not have diplomatic relations with Israel. Subianto has focused his ultra-nationalistic campaign on what he sees as Indonesia’s weakness in the world relative to its vast land area rich in natural resources and a population of more than 270 million.A longtime commander in Indonesia’s Kopassus special forces, Subianto was discharged from the military in 1998 after Kopassus soldiers tortured activists who opposed dictator Suharto, his father-in-law. He went into self-exile in Jordan before returning and founding the Gerindra Party in early 2008.In the past he worked closely with hard-line Islamists to undermine his opponents, but lost to Widodo in the 2014 and 2019 elections, which were marred by dirty campaigning and wild internet rumors. Subianto refused to accept both election results but decided to join the Cabinet after Widodo offered him the defense minister position in a bid for unity.___Follow AP's Asia-Pacific coverage at https://apnews.com/hub/asia-pacific。 杭州日报讯 “再现圆明园——国宝百年归藏特展”日前在浙江省博物馆之江馆区开幕。此次展览展出了圆明园虎首铜像、猴首铜像、猪首铜像、牛首铜像四尊兽首原件等多组珍贵文物，这也是圆明园兽首原件首次亮相浙江省博物馆。展览开幕后，观众热情高涨、馆内人气火爆，上周末两天（8月1日至2日）进馆观众超5.7万人次，成为浙江省博物馆之江馆区2023年8月开馆以来观展人数最多的特展。为营造相对舒适、从容的观展环境，也为让观众在排队入场时拥有良好的等待体验，博物馆即日起对该展览实行单独预约参观制，单日展厅限流1万人次，请观众提前登录“云上浙博”小程序预约，并在预约时段准时到馆参观。观众需持本人身份证原件或预约二维码，在该展厅入口处闸机单独核销，方可入内参观。该展览暂不开放现场预约通道，请市民游客务必提前完成线上预约。
二 | 需提醒的是：预约凭证仅限核销一次，出场即失效，不可重复进入，请合理安排参观时间。
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