No to the Return of state policy guidelines

Efforts to revive the Broad Guidelines of State Policy (GBHN) should not continue. If they came to pass, they would turn back time and Indonesia could revert to the New Order regime. We should not forget that the GBHN, which was drawn up and passed by the People's Consultative Assembly (MPR), was removed through the long process of amending the 1945 Constitution.

Following four amendments carried out between 1999 and 2002, the Constitution now places the MPR as a state institution at the same level as the President. Its duties and functions no longer include appointing the President, because the President is now directly elected by the people and he no longer has to be accountable to the MPR.

August 30, 2016