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DPR-RI DURING THE NEW ORDER:
                                                                                     STRENGTHENING THE ROLE OF THE STATE (1967-1998)








































                  growth. The population growth rate was reduced to 1.97 percent in the    Soeharto declared his resignation
                  1980s. Self-sufficiency in food and education was also a concern of the    from his position as President,
                                                                                                       21 May 1998.
                  New Order regime.


                  In fact, in the early 1990s, success in spurring high economic growth, an
                  average of 7 percent, made Indonesia classified among a group of devel-
                  oping countries that would soon become a newly industrialized coun-
                  try, following in the footsteps of other countries in Asia such as Taiwan,
                  South Korea, Singapore, and Hong Kong.


                  However, 30 years later, the continuity of Indonesia’s economic growth
                  began to experience crisis and stagnation, even leading to bankruptcy.
                  The initial explosion was the occurrence of depreciation, the decline in
                  the Rupiah exchange rate against foreign currencies. In a short time, the
                  political sector was also affected, which led to the “overthrow” of Presi-
                  dent Soeharto as the supreme ruler of the New Order regime by pro-de-
                  mocracy community groups led by students on 21 May 1998. Since then
                  until now, in Indonesia, there is a new political order called the Reform
                  Order.


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