Function Retentive

TNI Headquarters agrees to the idea of amending the constitutionbut wants to set its own conditions.

April 23, 2002

HISTORY will not repeat itself. Or not just yet, anyway. Some forty years ago, General Abdul Haris Nasution in his capacity as central war commander proposed reverting to the 1945 Constitution. Supported by the then President Sukarno, this maneuver resulted in the presidential decree of July 5, 1959 and ended any and all debate in the governing Konstituante. It ushered in the period known as `Guided Democracy' and was the start of nearly 4

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