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EFFORT TO REUNITE THE REPUBLIC OF INDONESIA
(1950 – 1960)

Political parties are the pillars of strength in the
parliament, meaningful in the government sys-
tem, especially in the work of parliament as a go-
vernment supervisor. However, the issuance of In the inauguration
Presidential Decree Number 7 of 1959 concerning ceremony of the
Conditions and Simplification of Political Parties
increasingly caused conflict between the parlia- deputy chair of the
ment and the government. The parliament felt DPR-GR on January
threatened as the pillars of its power were “dis-
turbed” by the president. 5, 1961, President
Soekarno reiterated
The Presidential Decree exacerbated the conflict that the position of
between the government and the DPR, whose re-
lationship was heating up due to the debate over the DPR-GR was
the State Revenue and Expenditure Budget Plan as an assistant
(RAPBN). The open conflict between the par-
liament and the government culminated when to the President/
the DPR rejected the 1960 State Budget Plan MPRS Mandate
(RAPBN) proposed by the government.
and to help the

Because the conflict over the RAPBN had esca- President implement
lated the tension between the parliament and the
government, Soekarno issued Presidential De- everything set by the
cree No. 3/1960 (State Gazette of 1960 No. 24) on MPRS.
March 5, 1960, implying that the 1955 DPR was
disbanded and would be replaced by a new leg-
islative structure.

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