Indonesia's central bank, Bank Indonesia (BI), has issued a regulation designed to improve the competitiveness of the banking system by streamlining bank ownership through consolidation and enhancing supervision, particularly in the area of good corporate governance.

Bank Indonesia has issued a regulation to improve the competitiveness of local banks in providing trust services, basically the management of assets. In particular, the new regulation is addressed to oil and gas companies operating in Indonesia, which keep much of their foreign exchange proceeds outside of the country, utilizing trust services provided by foreign banks.

Foreign and foreign-owned enterprises represent some of the largest employers in Indonesia. Accordingly, some foreign companies expressed consternation when, on February 29, 2012, the country's Ministry of Manpower and Transmigration issued Decree No. 40 of 2012 on Certain Positions that Are Restricted for Foreign Workers, which, among other things, lists 19 positions that cannot be held by non-Indonesian nationals, all related to the field of human resources.

Richard Emmerson, a senior foreign advisor at SSEK and one of Indonesia's leading labor and employment lawyers, spoke at a seminar on February 28, 2013, at the Mandarin Oriental, Jakarta on Indonesian HR & Employment Law.