Around the world, central bankers have been lauded for bailing out troubled banks and saving the global financial system. The uninspiring Ben Bernanke was even made Time magazine's person of the year.
But, in Indonesia, the $730m bailout of a small-ish lender called Bank Century in 2008 has become a millstone around the government's neck.
Despite a distinct lack of evidence, political opponents have hurled allegations of wrongdoing at President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono and, in...