6. Current challenges
The challenges facing HR managers in Indonesia are considerable. Culture change and
having efficiency understood as a priority are the major challenge facing HR managers in both
civil and private sectors. Talent search is seen as the major challenge for the service industry. In
the civil sector, there is a perceived need for less bureaucratic behavior and more entrepreneurial
behavior, presumably not of the kind that reflects the common reports of bribes being
sought by civil servants and of projectism. In organizations in which expatriates are employed,
there is a greater need to have expatriates focus of skills transfer and to ‘‘do themselves out of
their jobs.’’