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A CENTURY OF PARLIAMENTARY LIFE
IN INDONESIA

Even until Indonesia has reached a century

of parliamentary life, perhaps Indonesian

people are still in the process of learning,

adapting, and trying to implement various
political systems that they feel are appropriate.

Although it doesn’t always work, it doesn’t mean

it’s a complete failure.

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ndonesia has more than 300 ethnic groups, to be precise there are 1,340
ethnicities in the country, according to the 2010 census of the Central
Statistics Agency (BPS). They are separated and live together on more
than 17,000 islands. They also use different languages and dialects, apart
from the unified Indonesian language. According to data from the Minis-
try of Education and Culture in 2019, there are 801 languages throughout
Indonesia.

When all of them were in the process of becoming Indonesia, Indonesian
people also tried to have a parliamentary life. It was at the stage when
even Indonesia had not been formed as a state. Our parliamentary life is
carried out while experiencing the learning process as a nation.

Throughout the history of the parliamentary journey, every change of the
Government had always had its implications for the role and position
of the people’s representative institution, or currently called the House
of Representatives (DPR), whether when it was still in the form of or
called the Volksraad during the Dutch colonial era, when Japan colonized
Indonesia, or even when Indonesia became independent.

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