LAWYER Adnan Buyung Nasution must have been quite impressed with how the Masyumi Party and Natsir deported themselves during the Constituent Assembly (1956-59) period. In his book Aspirasi Pemerintahan Konstitusional di Indonesia, Studi Sosio-Legal Atas Konstituante 1956-1959 (Constitutional Government Aspirations in Indonesia, A Socio-Legal Study on the 1956-59 Constituent Assembly), published by Grafiti Pers in 1995, he said that the Masyumi’