Twilight for the High and Mighty?

The MPR, the country's highest organ of state, is to be abolished. However, PDI-P still wants to retain it so that presidents can be impeached.

September 25, 2001

The system of state administration in Indonesia is set to change drastically. The MPR (People's Consultative Assembly), the highest law-making body in the land, the receptacle of the people's sovereignty and the body charged with appointing the president, is to be abolished. In the future, the legislature will consist of two chambers, namely a House of Representatives and a Council of the Regions. This is the concept that has been proposed by the e...

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