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A CENTURY OF PARLIAMENTARY LIFE
IN INDONESIA

Achmad Syaikhu, Speaker of the The birth of the New Order Government was based on the determination
DPR-GR for the period of 1967-1971
and President Soekarno. and commitment to make a total correction of the shortcomings of the
political system that had been implemented previously. And the intended
correction was to implement Pancasila and the 1945 Constitution in a
pure and consistent manner.

Since the beginning, before the New Order government officially started,
since 1966 there had actually been a shift in the government’s focus of at-
tention. From the problem of nation building to economic development, it
was no longer politics that was the commander in chief, but the economy.

To make this correction, the New Order first started with what was called
the “national consensus”. There were two kinds of national consensus,
namely, first, in the form of the determination of the government and so-
ciety to implement Pancasila and the 1945 Constitution in a pure and
consistent manner. This first consensus was also known as the main con-
sensus. Meanwhile, the second consensus was about the ways to imple-
ment the main consensus. This second consensus was born between the
Government and political parties and the society.

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