General elections

General elections

From Media Indonesia

If President Abdurrahman Wahid is considered a failure, the People's Consultative Assembly (MPR) which elected him has also made a mistake. If the President withdraws before termination of his term of office, the MPR should be dissolved and a new general election held to open a new page of democratic development. If the MPR is not dissolved, it means that this institution has made an authoritarian step and insulted democracy as well as doubting the legal certainty.

Indonesia's messy current politics can be solved, for example by letting the President issue a presidential decree to dissolve the MPR and order that a general election be held. Thereafter the President will transfer his power to the Vice President, and the new President will have the duty to conduct a general election within a given time, so that a new page is created in the implementation of democracy.

SUMARTO SURODIPRODJO

Jakarta