Clashes and THE Dissolution of the Konstituante
The nation once experienced a phase of open parliamentary debates. If the tradition had not been killed, perhaps we would not have had such bloody clashes among the people.
March 19, 2002
The grand building in the cool city of Bandung was formerly called Societeit de Concordia, a society of `civil harmony' among Dutch East Indies citizens of European stock. When Indonesia became a republic, it was the conference venue of African-Asian leaders (1955), who agreed on the principle of non-alignment. From the same building, the Indonesian representatives in the Konstituante (Constituent Assembly) disbanded, leaving behind a dispute
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