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THE NEW FACE OF INDONESIAN PARLIAMENT
(1959-1966)

dispute. The ten political parties that were present were willing to sign President Soekarno welcoming the
Indonesian Student Action Union
the “Bogor Declaration” and agreed that the document problem was delegations on 18 January 1966 at
considered resolved and they would remain united in maintaining the the Merdeka Palace, Jakarta.
spirit of national unity by basing themselves on Pancasila, the Political
Manifesto of the Constitution, and the Nasakom formulation.

However, five days after the signing of the Bogor Declaration, on 17
December 1964, President Soekarno dissolved BPS, which was deemed
to have distorted the teachings of Soekarnoism and divided the unity of
Nasakom. Then, three weeks later, on 5 January 1965, President Soekarno

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