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A CENTURY OF PARLIAMENTARY LIFE
IN INDONESIA

The consolidation of Indonesian diplomats and leaders, including Mr.
Mohammad Rum and the Indonesian delegation at the United Nations,
PM Hatta in detention in Bangka, and Acting President Syafruddin
Prawiranegara in Bukittinggi, urged international leaders to take a stand
against the Netherland’s action on Indonesia. As a result, on 7 May 1949,
five months after the Dutch aggression against Yogyakarta, the Rum-
Royen Agreement was reached.

The Indonesian leaders were immediately re-
leased by the Dutch, while the government was
returned to PM Hatta from the PDRI. In the his-
The Indonesian leaders tory of BP KNIP, this was the last phase of its ex-
were immediately istence. The challenge of BP KNIP at that time
was to find the right way to reduce the turmoil
released by the Dutch, caused by the Dutch Military Aggression II and

while the government to prepare for the formation of the United States
of Indonesia (RIS).
was returned to PM

Hatta from the PDRI. In The return of the Indonesian government in Yog-
yakarta was the first step to realizing Indonesian
the history of BP KNIP, sovereignty within the RIS, a temporary govern-

this was the last phase ment prior to the establishment of the final Re-
public of Indonesia. The BP KNIP session con-
of its existence. veyed the common view on the government’s

statement, whereby BP KNIP finally supported
and approved the actions taken by the govern-
ment.

The government submitted two bills to the KNIP Session to be discussed
together, namely the Bill on Joint Agreement on the Approval of Drafts
and All Exchange of Correspondence regarding the Transfer of Sover-
eignty by the Kingdom of the Netherlands to the RIS and the Bill on the
Ratification of the RIS Constitution along with the Appendix on the Prin-
ciples of Governance.

With the inauguration of Mr. Assaat as acting president of the Republic
of Indonesia in Yogyakarta, it meant that RI had become one of the coun-
tries within the United States of Indonesia (RIS). RIS, formed at the end
of 1949, was short-lived as, in August 1950, the federal state became the
Unitary State of the Republic of Indonesia (NKRI).

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