A Bleak Future for the Constitutional Amendment

The plan to extend the President’s tenure is predicted to cause difficult deliberations on the amendment of the 1945 Constitution. There is concern that political interests may be at play.

Agung Sedayu

March 7, 2022

A WHATSAPP group for the leaders of the People’s Consultative Assembly (MPR) has been boisterous since the end of February, when several of the group’s members sent news links about the idea to extend the President’s tenure. Some of these articles rejected the plan to postpone the general elections or to extend the President’s tenure by amending the 1945 Constitution.

MPR Deputy Speaker from the United Development Party (

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