Hatta and Democracy
Tempo
August 13, 2002
Franz Magnis-Suseno, S.J.*
*Clergyman, professor of philosophy at the Driyarkara School of Philosophy, Jakarta
ON 15 July 1945, the Investigating Committee for the Preparation of Indonesian Independence (BPUPKI), met at Pejambon to discuss a fiercely debated issue (see Risalah Sidang BPUPKI, State Secretariat, 1992). Should democratic freedoms—the right to express one's views and opinion verbally and in writing and the right |