Cowan: How and why did this surge end? No one really knows the certain. The suggested explanations include population growth slowed, he says. Cowan talks to Sang Sang, who is a bad we official in Indonesia. He explains what it means to be 'bad we' - an ethnic group that lives according to their traditions.
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