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A CENTURY OF PARLIAMENTARY LIFE
IN INDONESIA

The farewell of the former Marxism/Leninism. Therefore, what was dissolved and declared a
DPR-GR leadership with the new
leadership at the house of the banned party was not only the PKI, but all the organizations under it.
DPR-GR Speaker H. A. Syaichu in
Slipi, the former DPR-GR Speaker,
IGG Subamia (third from left The purging of PKI elements in DPR-GR membership which referred to
replaced by H.A. Syaichu second Law Number 10 of 1966 was based on the principle of the status quo (no
from left), in Jakarta in 1966.
replacement or filling of vacancies for DPR-GR members who were de-
clared dismissed because they were involved in the September 30 Move-
ment). After the purging of the communist elements, a plan to refresh or
add members of the DPR-GR was immediately discussed.

The DPR-GR Deliberative Committee meeting on 8 December 1966 re-
sulted in a consensus. One of them stated that the number of members
of the DPR-GR as a result of the general election was 460 people, con-
sisting of 360 people who were elected and 100 people who were ap-
pointed. In the context of refreshing or adding members of the DPR-GR
based on deliberation between the leadership of the DPR-GR and the
bearers of Provisional MPR Decree No. IX/MPRS/1966, an agreement
was reached regarding the number of DPR-GR members, which was 90
percent of the total of 460 people, or equal to 414 people.

The DPR-GR was later known as the DPR-GR minus the PKI or the DPR-
GR - New Order era. The term of office of the DPR-GR minus the PKI was
from 15 November 1965 to 19 November 1966.

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