But culling the herd is slow and difficult, partly because state franchise laws protect the country's 21, 640 car dealers (who exert much political power in state legislatures).

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The problem is the Indonesian army, an army that has become a state within a state, with enormous privileges, political power and economic power.

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The key to change lies to some extent in the regulatory power of the state but also in the choices, political and individual, we make.

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