The quality of a firm can be determined from the application of the principles of corporate governance. Good and bad management of a company will affect the performance or accomplishment of the objective. In this thesis writers would discuss the implementation of the principle of Good Corporate Governance, in the corporate in public companies in the bank. According to Minister of State Owned Enterprises No. 117 / M-MBU / 2002, Good Corporate Governance is a process of structures used by the company to raise the accountability and business enterprises to create a long-term shareholder value to keep taking into account the interests of stakeholders, based on the regulation and ethical values. Good Corporate Governance as a system of governance within the company is effective way so that each company has the formidable competitiveness and strong to restore confidence of investors. Good Corporate Governance is believed to be the key to success for an enterprise to grow and develop as well as beneficial in the long run. There are 5 (five) principles of Good Corporate Governance, i.e. Transparency, Accountability, Responsibility, Independency, and Fairness. The application of the principles of Good Corporate Governance is necessary and effective to apply to company business activities especially in the banking sector in Indonesia. Some regulations related to Good Corporate Governance are also needed such as: Law No. 19 of 2003 on State-Owned Enterprises (SOE Act); PBI No. 8/12 /PBI/ 2006 on the Implementation of Good Corporate Governance for Banks; Bank Indonesia Circular Letter No. 9/12 /DPNP dated May 30, 2007 on the Implementation of Good Corporate Governance for Banks; and the National Committee on Corporate Governance. To examine the correlation of corporate governance or good relations with the performance of a bank, Hence writers will do research on the application of the principle of legal normatively Good Corporate Governance on a bank of state enterprises (SOEs). State-owned bank as an object of this research is PT Bank Rakyat Indonesia Tbk. (BRI), which is a commercial bank with the best performance of SOEs