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A CENTURY OF PARLIAMENTARY LIFE
IN INDONESIA

Chairman of the Presidium of tion of the National Committee, this was not the case with Lieutenant
the Ampera Cabinet, General
Suharto was giving a Government General Soeharto (bearer of Supersemar, Order of Eleventh March) after
statement on the state situation, receiving the legal considerations submitted by G-V-KOTI. Because, if the
16 August 1966.
MPRS and DPR-GR were dissolved under the current circumstances at
the time, juridically all power would fall back into the hands of the Presi-
dent based on Article IV of the Transitional Rules of the 1945 Constitution.
This was also considered to be the accumulation of power in one person.
The stance of Lieutenant General Suharto later became the stance of the
Armed Forces of the Republic of Indonesia.

The Armed Forces of the Republic of Indonesia, through its leadership,
then issued a statement of position that, after carefully understanding
the development of the situation, which manifested the voice of the peo-
ple’s conscience, responded to the statements regarding:

First, the Armed Forces were the safeguards, the Indonesian Revolution-
ary Guards with three frameworks of objectives to be achieved based on
Pancasila.

Second, the Armed Forces were the protectors of the Great Leader of
the Indonesian Revolution and the safeguards of the authority of the
President, Bung Karno, along with his teachings, who in good faith, as
the child of the revolution, were brave and honest in providing reports

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