I've been living in Jakarta for about a year and a half now, and Id agree with what you are saying overall. I think a big problem is that since a lot of the in

I've been living in Jakarta for about a year and a half now, and Id agree with what you are saying overall. I think a big problem is that since a lot of the institutions are at the national level with offices locally (very different from having institutions organized/with jurisdiction locally and having one or more overarching above/beside them), such that there's no "competition" over local governance which would naturally attract/repel people to regions over others based on how things are run. Which incidentally, seems in line with the pervasiveness of the corruption. You just wont get the local office for the national police to care about people cutting holes in the flood walls, or pretty much anything unless you pay them.