Seven Words You (Still) Can't Say in the Constitution

November 6, 2001

Time may go by, eras may change, but the issues which are debated may still remain the same. In 1945, the Jakarta Charter became a heated debate among the founders of Indonesia. Reasoning that national disintegration must be avoided, the seven word formula "with the obligation of implementing the Islamic legal code for its adherents" was finally omitted from the first principle of the Pancasila (the five basic principles of the Republ

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