[PDF] Constitution Of The Republic Of Indonesia eBook

Author : R. Supomo
Publisher : Equinox Pub
Page : 146 pages
File Size : 40,32 MB
Release : 2009
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9786028397360

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Professor Supomo was for many years one of Indonesia's foremost scholars and by far its leading constitutional authority, having served as Minister of Justice in several cabinets. His death in 1958 was a great loss to Indonesian government and legal scholarship. The Provisional Constitution of the Republic of Indonesia was only one of Professor Supomo's many important published writings, the main body of which dealt with Indonesian customary law. This book, however, is undoubtedly the most significant source on the Constitution of 1950. This Constitution remained operative for approximately seven years after the formation of the Unitary State in August 1950, being fully and officially superseded only in July 1959 with the return to the Constitution of 1945. Professor Supomo's commentary on the individual articles forms the most important analysis and interpretation of the 1950 Constitution to have appeared. Those interested in Indonesia's political development should therefore find this translation useful. - George McT. Kahin, March 10, 1964

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Publisher : Marzha Tweedo
Page : 56 pages
File Size : 34,84 MB
Release : 2016-03-04
Category : Law
ISBN :

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Disclaimer This Book is for Introduce Indonesian’s Constitution only, cant be used as legal reference. It’s not authorized translation. The translator not responsible for any missuse from this book.

Author : Donald L. Horowitz
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 345 pages
File Size : 46,73 MB
Release : 2013-03-25
Category : Law
ISBN : 1107027276

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How did democracy became entrenched in the world's largest Muslim-majority country? After the fall of its authoritarian regime in 1998, Indonesia pursued an unusual course of democratization. It was insider-dominated and gradualist and it involved free elections before a lengthy process of constitutional reform. At the end of the process, Indonesia's amended constitution was essentially a new and thoroughly democratic document. By proceeding as they did, the Indonesians averted the conflict that would have arisen between adherents of the old constitution and proponents of radical, immediate reform. Donald L. Horowitz documents the decisions that gave rise to this distinctive constitutional process. He then traces the effects of the new institutions on Indonesian politics and discusses their shortcomings and their achievements in steering Indonesia away from the dangers of polarization and violence. He also examines the Indonesian story in the context of comparative experience with constitutional design and intergroup conflict.

Author : Simon Butt
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 46,31 MB
Release : 2012-08-29
Category : Law
ISBN : 1847319882

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For decades, Indonesia's 1945 Constitution, the second shortest in the modern world, was used as an apologia by successive authoritarian regimes. A bare-bones text originally intended as a temporary measure, it did little beyond establish basic state organs, including a powerful presidency. It did not offer citizens real guarantees or protections. These weaknesses were ruthlessly exploited by the military-backed regime that President Soeharto headed from 1966 until his fall in 1998. The (first ever) amendments to the Constitution, which began the following year and were completed in 2002, changed all this. Enlarging and rethinking the Constitution, they ushered in a liberal democratic system based around human rights, an open society and separation of powers. These reforms also created a Constitutional Court that has provided Indonesia's first judicial forum for serious debate on the interpretation and application of the Constitution, as well as its first significant and easily-accessible body of detailed and reasoned judgments. Today, Indonesian constitutional law is rich, sophisticated and complex. This book surveys this remarkable constitutional transition, assessing the implementation of Indonesia's new constitutional model and identifying its weaknesses. After covering key institutions exercising executive, legislative and judicial powers, the book focuses on current constitutional debates, ranging from human rights to decentralisation, religious freedom and control of the economy.