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A CENTURY OF PARLIAMENTARY LIFE
IN INDONESIA

Sea of people flooded the general assistant to the President. This was evidenced by its action in which it
meeting for the safety of the
revolution and expressed their did not report first to the President, but instead report to the leadership
gratitude to the Great Commander of the DPR-GR on their own initiative during a recess, making a policy to
of the Revolution, Bung Karno and
supported Lieutenant General temporarily suspend 62 members.
Soeharto’s policy of disbanding
the PKI.
Other actions that could also prove that the DPR-GR was no longer an
assistant to the president were the dismissal of the leadership of the
DPR-GR and the appointment of a caretaker led by the DPR-GR by a
plenary session on 2 May 1966, as well as selecting and ratifying the
leadership of the DPR-GR by the Plenary Session of the DPR-GR on 17
May 1966. The position as assistant to the president in a formal juridi-
cal manner was only abolished by the repeal of Presidential Regulation
No. 32 of 1964 by Presidential Regulation No. 7 of 1966, which in Article
2 read: “To trust the DPR-GR to regulate and stipulate its own Rules of
Procedure in accordance with the development of the 1945 Constitution
implementation” .

Even though the DPR-GR minus the PKI was no longer positioned as an
assistant to the president, the expected cooperation between the DPR-
GR and the president/executive leader still often encountered obstacles.
This was considering the political situation which was still very unstable
at the time, so efforts were needed to place every problem in its portion
so that it could be resolved by the relevant institutions.

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