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A CENTURY OF PARLIAMENTARY LIFE
IN INDONESIA

In this new Presidential Regulation, there were
additional requirements, among them regard-
ing membership which was determined to have
There were a total of at least 150 thousand people or each branch had
8 political parties that at least 50 members. Meanwhile, its dissolution
was still regulated in Article 9 (paragraph 1) of
managed to pass and get Presidential Regulation Number 7 of 1959. The
legal recognition as a President conveyed it to the Supreme Court. If a

political party on 14 April decision had been made, the political party that
had the decision to dissolve must dissolve itself
1961. within 30 days. If it exceeded the allotted time,
the political party would be declared a banned
party.

The new regulation also stated that in the event
of a dissolution of a political party, all members
who represented it in the legislature, starting
from the MPR, DPR, to DRD (Regional Research
Council), would automatically be considered as
ceased members of the institution.

Based on the Presidential Regulation, there were a total of 8 political
parties that managed to pass and get legal recognition as a political party
on 14 April 1961. They were NU, PNI, PKI, Partai Indonesia (Partindo), the
Murba Party, PSII Arudji, IPKI, and the Catholic Party. On the same day,
Decree No. 129 of 1961 was issued, which rejected the recognition of 4
political parties, namely PSII-Abikusno, PRN-Bebasa, PRI, and PRN-Jody.
One of the four political parties was the PRI (Partai Rakyat Indonesia),
which based on the results of the 1955 General Election only won 2 seats
in the DPR. Meanwhile, in the DPR-GR, PRI did not get a seat.

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