Reforms, Opportunities, and Challenges for State-Owned Enterprises

role. The authors are to be congratulated for their careful analysis of the evidence. However, they do not address what are perhaps the most important questions relating to the future of Indonesia’s civil service. Is it actually too small to meet the development needs of the country? If some parts should be expanded, how can more skilled PNS be recruited and retained? How can provincial and district governments provide better services in those sectors for which they have primary responsibility? Far from being resolved, these questions will need attention for years and probably decades to come.