Amend it or Defend it
Tuesday, September 18, 2001
The 1945 Constitution might have been regarded as a sacred document for too long a time. It was readopted as the state constitution following a decree issued by Indonesia’s first President Sukarno in 1959. Enacted literally in a rather hasty manner during the early period of the Indonesian struggle for independence, the 1945 Constitution has become a sort of a sacred scripture or tablets from the mountain that warrant unqualified acceptan
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