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Last week, around 500 civil society members, activists and academics published a letter sent to Prabowo requesting he not proceed with the hero designation.

"We should be able to expect safe, compassionate and diligent care for some of the most vulnerable people in society," says Jane.

The breaking down of society is a means to an end—the long game of political control.

In the 1980s drug cartels teamed up with rebel groups to gain control of many rural jurisdictions, collecting taxes and ruling over civil society.

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