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FROM VOLKSRAAD TO THE CENTRAL INDONESIAN NATIONAL COMMITTEE
(1917–1949)

the formation of the Volksraad with the equal rights under Political Ethics.
He showed that government employees could dominate local councils
in the future where the Volksraad candidates would take their place and
that it should be changed. If officials controlled the Volksraad, then the
Volksraad would fail its purpose to represent.

News that the Staten Generaal had ratified the law supporting the estab- Volksraad Assembly, c. 1924/1925.
lishment of the Volksraad had reached the Dutch East Indies before the (Source: KITLV 116908)
delegation returned from the Netherlands. News that caught the indig-
enous people’s attention was that, in the new parliament, 15 members
would be indigenous people, with 10 members being elected and five
members being appointed, from a total of 38 members.

Budi Utomo immediately took the initiative to form a National Committee
with members consisting of the leaders of various indigenous organiza-

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