Bulls Eye on a Decree?
The new front against the constitutional amendment wants the annual MPR session to get nowhere. The suggestion of using a presidential decree to restore the original, autocratic, centralistic 1945 Constitution has been heard in the bulls pen.
August 6, 2002
Laughter rang out from the home of Megawati Sukarnoputri, president, party leader and at the time host to politicians of all per-suasions. The householder of Jalan Teuku Umar 27, Central Jakarta, on Saturday met the heads of factions in the supreme Peoples Consultative Assembly (MPR), currently meeting for its annual session. The legislators from Indonesias supreme state institution left together for the head of states official residence in a big
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