Studies have documented how ethnic and religious sentiments shape the voting behavior of Indonesian Muslims. However, to date no studies have carefully measured the relative influence of these sentiments. I fill this gap in the literature by taking advantage of the candidacy of a Christian, ethnic Chinese candidate in the 2017 Jakarta gubernatorial election in Basuki Tjahaja Purnama (Ahok). Employing an original survey of Jakartan Muslims, I show through experimental and correlational analyses that Muslim voters are more opposed to Ahok than non-Muslim voters are and that this opposition is driven more by Ahok's ethnicity, as opposed to his religion. I also show that Muslim voters’ feelings toward ethnic Chinese shape their support for Ahok more than their feelings toward Christians. I discuss how these findings inform our understanding of the limits and extent of religious influence on Muslim voting behavior.

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印度尼西亚政治中的民族和宗教情绪：来自 2017 年雅加达州长选举的证据

研究记录了种族和宗教情绪如何影响印度尼西亚穆斯林的投票行为。然而，迄今为止，还没有研究仔细衡量这些情绪的相对影响。我利用 2017 年在 Basuki Tjahaja Purnama (Ahok) 举行的雅加达州长选举中的一名基督教华裔候选人的候选资格，填补了文献中的这一空白。通过对雅加达穆斯林的原始调查，我通过实验和相关分析表明，穆斯林选民比非穆斯林选民更反对 Ahok，而且这种反对更多地是由 Ahok 的种族而不是他的宗教所驱动的。我还表明，穆斯林选民对华裔的感情影响了他们对 Ahok 的支持，而不是他们对基督徒的感情。