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A CENTURY OF PARLIAMENTARY LIFE
IN INDONESIA

Caricature on Harian Rakyat, However, this Presidential decree may result in the dissolution of political
3 July 1964.
parties, which can also affect the composition of political parties in the
DPR. Later on, Masyumi and the Indonesian Socialist Party would be the
first victims.

Soekarno’s direction of party regulation seemed to have paved the way
for emphasizing the themes already seen in his writings in 1926, which
called for unity between nationalism, Islam, and Marxism. This theme in
the Guided Democracy era was known as the Nasakom doctrine (Na-
tionalism, Religion, Communism). It seemed that this doctrine implied
that PNI (for nationalism), NU (for religion), and PKI (for communism)
represented Soekarno’s concept which was expected to play a role in the
Government at all levels.

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