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THE NEW FACE OF INDONESIAN PARLIAMENT
(1959-1966)

DPR, the subject of factions was contained in a special
chapter on factions.

In the Rules of the People’s Representative Council of
Mutual Assistance of the Republic of Indonesia during
the next period of 1960, the term faction disappeared
again. Only the term “group” was known at that time.
This continued until the periods of 1964 and 1966, where
apart from being known as “group”, it was also known
with the term “party”. The term faction was only starting
to be used again in the period of 1967 up to the present,
as was always used in the DPR Rules of Procedure.

The DPR Rules of Procedure after the 1959 Presidential
Decree regulated these factions specifically in Articles
151 to 154. It was stated in the rules that members of the
DPR who share a party/group or have the same politi-
cal goals can join forces in the same faction in the DPR
(Article 151 paragraph 2).

On 1 October 1959, the DPR finally began to hold its
first plenary session since the DPR agreed to continue
working within the framework of the 1945 Constitution
after the Presidential Decree of 5 July 1959. After being
discussed by the factions and perfected, the DPR Rules
of Procedure were then ratified on 9 October 1959.

However, the stipulations in these rules of procedure
could not be fully implemented in reality. Due to the
short age of the DPR after the Presidential Decree of
5 July 1959 and the dominant power of President Soe-
karno, not even a year later some rules that were made
were no longer available in the new DPR rules which
were once again ratified. One of them was the rules of
procedure for electing the leadership of the DPR. Rules
regarding this matter were no longer included in the
DPR-GR Rules of Procedure. However, there was in-
stead an opportunity for the President’s intervention in
the election for the leadership of the DPR.

Working Field Coordination
Compared to the DPR Rules of Procedure in the era of of DPR GR’s Commission.
Parliamentary Democracy, the process of selecting the

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