The Jakarta Charter: Broken Promises?
Tuesday, November 6, 2001
LATER gentlemen, when our nation is in a more peaceful situation, of course the Consultative Assembly (MPR) will convene again to prepare a more comprehensive and perfect constitution." Sukarno's appeal that day, August 18, 1945, finally ended the heated debate in the Indonesian Independence Preparation Committee (PPKI) on the new state's constitution.
The session agrees. With that, the constitution was "passed," without
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