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In 1998, Indonesia was deep in crisis. With the country reeling from soaring inflation, mass unemployment and mounting unrest, tensions erupted into protests and riots that brought an end to the three ...

Society will be much improved by loosening the stranglehold of top universities on the education of elites. But how?