JAKARTA: Candidates on Tuesday opened their campaigns for Indonesia's presidential election, which is shaping up as a three-way race among a former special forces general who's lost twice before and two former governors.

The three presidential hopefuls vowed a peaceful race on Monday as concerns rose that their rivalry may sharpen religious and ethnic divides in the world's most populous Muslim-majority country.

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