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Observers say that a spate of violent incidents, such as last month’s torching of a regent’s office in Bima by angry local people, is due to an almost total absense of leadership on the part of the government that has eroded public trust in the state – which people see as defending the interests of the rich at the expense of ordinary people’s rights – leaving people with no recourse but to take the law into their own hands.