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A CENTURY OF PARLIAMENTARY LIFE
IN INDONESIA

In fact, even further, according to General A. H.
Nasution’s confession in his book Fulfilling the
Call of Duty Volume 5, President Soekarno de-
The various dynamics liberately appointed the heads of the legislative
emerged after President and judicial institutions as ministers. In this way,
power was centralized as ministers must be held
Soekarno announced to accountable to the President and ministries were

dissolve the 1955 DPR subordinated under the President.

and form a new “gotong- If an institution failed to follow the President’s
royong” DPR. As a wish in performing its duties, the institution
would be immediately dissolved and replaced
legislative body, the two with a new one. The State Apparatus Retooling

were quite different. Committee (Paran) under General Nasution was
one of the institutions dissolved. Thus, the con-
cerns of the League of Democrats and perhaps
other parties who also rejected the dissolution of
the 1955 DPR and the establishment of the DPR-
GR became a reality.

The various dynamics emerged after President Soekarno announced to
dissolve the 1955 DPR and form a new “gotong-royong” DPR. As a legis-
lative body, the two were quite different. DPR-GR’s membership was no
longer based on the political or organizational power balance as was the
case in the previous period.

The DPR-GR’s members came from nationalist, Islamic, communist, and
Christian-Catholic political parties and a functional group. However, peo-
ple outside the government felt that the composition was harmful. They
believed that it would most likely birth a dominant group with a strong
influence and position in the DPR.

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