Indonesia Political Situation
Indonesia Political Situation Indonesia's political system is a constitutional democracy. The current system is the result of various constitutional amendments after the fall of the authoritarian President Soeharto in 1998. The president is now elected in a general election every five years (until 2004 the president was elected by the MPR). The legislature is made up of two bodies: the House of Representatives (DPR) and the Regional Representatives' Assembly (DPD), mandated to deal with regional affairs. The supreme constitutional body is the People's Consultative Assembly (MPR), consisting of both the DPR and DPD sitting together. The MPR is the final arbiter - after Parliament and the Constitutional Court - of constitutional amendments and impeachment proceedings. It sat frequently until 2004, but is now expected to sit only once during a presidential term unless the nation is confronted by a major political crisis. The main ideological strands in Indonesian politics are ...