Did Indonesia’s vice-president just resign because he didn’t have a high school diploma?

Gibran Rakabuming Raka, the son of former president Joko Widodo, has faced months of questions about his eligibility for office

It has been a turbulent few weeks in Indonesia, with claims the president’s phone was tapped, an uneasy political alliance seemingly in tatters, and now the vice-president resigning after a court ruled he never finished high school.

On the face of it, the drama centres on the educational achievements of vice-president Gibran Rakabuming Raka, but there is more to it than that.