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A CENTURY OF PARLIAMENTARY LIFE
IN INDONESIA

This Extra-Parliamentary Emergency Cabinet (Kabinet Karya) program
was called Panca-Karya, which comprised:
1. Form the National Council

2. Normalize the Republican State

3. Continue the Implementation of the KMB Cancellation

4. Fight for West Irian

5. Intensify Development

After the cabinet programs were compiled, the
Djuanda Cabinet reported them to the DPR
beginning May 17, 1959. Discussion of these
programs in the DPR did not experience any
difficulties and did not face many challenges.
With the formation Therefore, the parliament allowed the cabinet

of the Karya to work. In addition, this shows that, although
different from the previous cabinet formation,
Cabinet, the the Karya Cabinet was still responsible to the

government DPR.

overlooked the With the formation of the Karya Cabinet, the
power in the DPR, government overlooked the power in the DPR,
focusing instead on the ministers’ respective
focusing instead expertise. At the beginning of its term, this cabi-

on the ministers’ net did not meet President Soekarno’s expecta-
tions as conveyed in the Presidential Concep-
respective expertise. tion. Moreover, this cabinet could not be called
a four-leg cabinet, as representatives from the
PKI as one of the four parties that won the elec-
tion were not included, even though a few PKI
sympathizers were appointed as ministers in
the Karya Cabinet. Nonetheless, this was the
cabinet with the most extended lifespan com-
pared to some of the previous cabinets.

In addition to the criticisms made regarding the formation of this cabi-
net, Juanda as prime minister also had to face various problems, includ-
ing the tension between President Soekarno and Vice President Moh.
Hatta in 1956 when Hatta resigned from the vice-presidential seat; the

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