The Bank has madegovernancethecenterpieceof its most recentCountryAssistanceStrategyforIndonesiaandtried to mainstreamgovernance issues inallof its activities inIndonesia.
But of those that chose the state banks, most went either to Bank Negara Indonesia or to Bank Rakyat Indonesia: the four banks that now comprise Bank Mandiri received few of the new customers.
In a report this week, the World Bank says Indonesia faces many of the same problems encountered by transitional democracies in Eastern Europe, but fails to do much about it.