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A CENTURY OF PARLIAMENTARY LIFE
IN INDONESIA

president would have a much stronger legitimacy of power than the
previous president. Third, the political authority of a president no longer
depended on the legislature, which in the old system rested with the
MPR, but directly on the Indonesian people.

The beginning of the 2005-2006 session year was marked by the emer-
gence of problems in institutional relations between the DPR-DPD-
President regarding the plan to discuss the 2006 State Budget bill. It had
become a convention every 16 August or the beginning of the session of
the DPR-RI which was marked by a state speech by the president at the

plenary session of the DPR. DPD-RI as a new state institution that was
present on the mandate of Amendment III of the constitution and whose
position was equal to the DPR-RI, apparently wanted a state speech by
the president to be carried out in front of the DPD.

In its development, as was usually done by the DPR and had become a
constitutional convention, the DPD also intended to invite the President
to give a state speech before the DPD. After a long debate, finally after
16 August 2005, the President was willing to give his state speech before

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