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A CENTURY OF PARLIAMENTARY LIFE
IN INDONESIA

In relation to its supervisory function, DPR has the duties and authority
to supervise the implementation of laws, State Budget, and government
policies. Meanwhile, the other duties and authority of DPR are to absorb,
collect, accommodate, and follow up on the aspirations of the people,
including selecting members of the Audit Board by taking into account
the considerations of DPD.

The House of Representatives in its organizational structure and its posi-
tion, duties, and authority, as well as DPR’s role in the decision-making
process, is constitutionally regulated in the 1945
Constitution. The DPR is a high constitutional
body in the Unitary State of the Republic of Indo-
nesia, which fully represents the aspirations of the
Around 15 years after people. From the point of view of the Indonesian

independence day/ constitutional system, DPR is no longer a young
the Proclamation on institution. It has undergone multiple corrections
and many things have changed throughout the
17 August 1945, the decades. But until 1960, the DPR was only at the
DPR had never fully stage of trying to carry out its roles. Around 15

implemented the mandate years after independence day/the Proclamation
on 17 August 1945, the DPR had never fully im-
of the 1945 Constitution, plemented the mandate of the 1945 Constitution,

both temporary and both temporary and permanent, and neither did
the MPR.
permanent, and neither
did the MPR. During the first period of the 1945 Constitution,
which took effect from 18 August 1945 to 27
December 1949, when the status of the Unitary
State of the Republic of Indonesia that was pro-
claimed on 17 August 1945 changed to becoming
a united state or the so-called Republic of the United States of Indonesia
(RIS), the DPR was only known in the constitutional theory as referred
to in 1945 Constitution. Meanwhile, in practice, the MPR had not been
formed as a state institution of the Republic of Indonesia. Because the
highest state institution, the MPR, had not been realized as intended by
the Constitution, all its duties and authority were still carried out by the
President with the assistance of the Constituent Body.

The same situation occurred during the 1949 RIS Constitution period,
which took effect from 27 December 1949 to 17 August 1950, when
the Unitary State of the Republic of Indonesia was one of the states
of the Republic of the United States of Indonesia. Similarly, during the

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