The aide memoir, issued after a World Bank team visited here recently to investigate corruption, said the government could take several immediate steps to improve transparency.

Among them was ``a requirement for the declaration of assets of all major public officials.''

Other measures could include prohibiting conflict of interest in government decision-making and introducing a freedom of information law including laws to protect ``whistle-blowers,'' the aide memoir said.

The team said that given the current political uncertainties, with elections approaching, Indonesia needed to establish an institutional mechanism to push the anti-corruption campaign rather than leave the drive to the government of the day.

This could be done by setting up a national governancereform task force or commission to handle anti-corruption efforts, it said.

Other measures to help lay the groundwork for a long-term agenda could include holding a major conference to bring international experience to bear on the Indonesian situation, public surveys, and a ``truth and reconciliation'' commission to address the past, it said.