President should consult with DPR

President should consult with DPR

Mr. Dimyati suggested that the Commission of Inquiry into
Human Right Violations (KPP HAM) in East Timor also calls on
Habibie, who, he deems is responsible for the East Timor
postreferendum chaos and atrocities.

May I ask for your kind help to educate me and the public.
Was, and is, the president entitled to offer any province in
our republic a referendum to separate from the republic? With my
limited experience and knowledge of industry and trade, the
executive body, being the board of directors, cannot just go and
sell the assets of the company.

It must first ask the board of commissaries, in this case the
House of Representatives (DPR). Eventually they will ask the
shareholders i.e. the People's Consultative Assembly (MPR) if its
idea is acceptable, and they would then proceed to gather offers
etc., and present the result. Then the highest office (a meeting
of shareholders) decides.

Is it not thus, that the power of the president is, or should
be, limited, and, in cases like the one above, he or she ought to
go through a similar process?

YOESOEF SANTO

Jakarta