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KOMPAS/RADITYA HELABUMI

Lawmakers attend the annual session of the People’s Consultative Assembly (MPR) on Friday (16/8/2019) at the Nusantara Building of the Senayan legislative complex in Jakarta.

“Upon this vow, I promise to work to fulfill the interests of the homeland and the nation, to the limits of the knowledge and abilities that I possess."

This excerpt from Sultan Hamengku Buwono (H.B.) IX’s inaugural address on 18 March 1940, upon being crowned the King of the Yogyakarta Sultanate, immediately comes to mind on reading the current discourse about legislators who plan to revise Law No. 2/2018 on the MPR, DPR, DPD and DPRD (MD3 Law). Several members of the House of Representatives (DPR) have proposed to increase the MPR leadership to 10 members: one speaker and nine deputy speakers (Kompas, 22/8/2019). Article 427C of the MD3 Law stipulates that the MPR leadership be comprised of one speaker and four deputy speakers.

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